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Early Christmas for the New Firefighter Recruits
A new generation of firefighters have passed their firefighter training today (Friday) after one of the largest recruitment drives in recent years. Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service (TWFRS) are proud to announce that 32 of our latest recruits that started their training at Service Headquarters in Washington back...
Teesside University launches Professor Jane Turner Legacy Programme to support future female leaders
Professor Jane Turner OBE DL, former Pro Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Engagement, was an influential business leader in the Tees Valley and a passionate advocate for young women in the region. In Jane’s memory, the University is now launching the Professor Jane Turner Legacy Programme, which will support future...
Mental Health Charity Supports Employability Programme to Help People With Disabilities get into Work
Mental health charity, Mental Health Concern, is lead partner of an employability programme, Moving On Tyne & Wear who help people with a health barrier, disability, additional learning need, or autism, get into employment, training, or volunteering. Since the Moving On Tyne & Wear programme launched in 2017, 75% of...
Barratt Developments supports the futures of the next generation
15 December 2021: Barratt Developments North East is continuing to support young peoples’ careers as four new apprentices join the housebuilder’s Apprenticeship Scheme. Designed to help young adults kick start their career, Barratt Developments’ Apprenticeship Scheme is welcoming four students across its construction, bricklaying, and joinery departments. By joining the scheme,...
New Craft Beer Micropub “Mosaic Tap” Now Open in Newcastle!
Newcastle’s Craft Beer Offering Just Got Bigger – joining Beer Street and The Delta Lounge to create a great trio of micropubs behind Central Station. Isaac Vernon is Newcastle born-&-bred, a former student of St Thomas More & Queen Alexandra Sixth Form college in North Shields. ...
Best Dressed Christmas Workspace in North Tyneside
Businesses in North Tyneside went all out to decorate their shops, offices and workspaces for Christmas thanks to a competition organised by North Tyneside Business Forum.  The competition was aimed at getting people to feel good about their workspace and encourage customers to visit their premises to see the yuletide...
Student’s Visit to Accountants Adds Up to Good Career Advice
The Newcastle office of a leading national accountancy firm has teamed up with a Consett based charity to help young people prepare for their future outside of school. Haines Watts was established in the 1930’s and has always promoted entrepreneurial spirit as one of its business aims. As part...
Go North East expands workforce following recruitment drive
The region’s leading bus company has teamed up with Gateshead College and hired 11 new apprentices to expand its highly skilled workforce. The new bus and coach engineers and coachbuilder recruits have joined Go North East to help it maintain and service its fleet of buses as it continues to...
NORTHEAST BASED BRAND ECLECTIC RELEASES DEBUT SAMPLE COLLECTION
The debut ECLECTIC Fall Winter 21 collection speaks to the very heart of simplicity. It breaks down the very barriers of what it means to be ECLECTIC, redefining the meaning. Hailing from Newcastle upon Tyne, ECLECTIC est. 2020, aims to show the world that the Newcastle upon Tyne is a...
Launch of Ad Gefrin puts North Northumberland on the Map
The Autumn 2022 opening of world-class cultural visitor experience Ad Gefrin will champion Northumberland’s Anglo Saxon ‘Golden Age’, alongside the county’s first whisky distillery. A celebration and showcase of the unique heritage, ancient hospitality and contemporary crafts, arts and produce of Northumberland, Ad Gefrin is both a fully-immersive Anglo Saxon...

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