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North of England Courts North American FC Firms - 12/01/06
The next wave of fuel cell R&D may soon be hitting the English coast, if one investment group has its way. The North of England Inland Investment Agency (NEIIA) is actively pursuing North Americ...Read More

Millenium Dome Contractors Set to Develop Middlesbrough Flagship Site - 11/23/06
The firm in charge of the Millennium Dome redevelopment has signed an agreement to lead Middlesbrough's £500m Middlehaven project. Tees Valley Regeneration's new vision for Middlehaven is set to...Read More

Prestige award for James - 11/23/06
THE importance of young people to the future of the aerospace industry was the central theme of a major awards ceremony staged by the North West Aerospace Alliance (NWAA). Top apprentice James Capstic...Read More

First UK Bioethanol producing company to list on AIM - 11/22/06
Ensus, a UK based renewable energy company, is pleased to announce that it is seeking to list on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and raise between £80 and 90m. Ensus plans to beco...Read More

R&D Boost for North East England - 11/14/06
£8m has been pledged to help North East entrepreneurs over the next three years. The Research and Development Grant Team – based at One NorthEast – has received £5m from the Eu...Read More

Cumbria Wins Nuclear Training Lab - 10/27/06
A hi-tech nuclear training facility is to be created at the Sellafield site in Cumbria, ministers have confirmed. The National Nuclear Laboratory will be tasked with safeguarding vital skills for the...Read More

North England airports increase routes to meet demand - 10/25/06
Low-fares airline flyglobespan has announced several new routes from North England to North America in order to meet growing demand. Starting next summer, travelers will be able to fly from Doncaster/...Read More

Nuclear group for sale in pieces - 10/25/06
The Government ended months of uncertainty about its privatisation plans for the country's remaining nuclear assets, confirming that British Nuclear Group would be broken up and sold off piecemeal. A...Read More

North England pharma cluster to lead cancer fight - 10/23/06
International pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has opened a new laboratory in North England that will attract more of the world's leading scientists in cancer research to the region. AstraZeneca has i...Read More

NORTH ENGLAND COMPANY CHOSEN FOR CRUCIAL JET TESTING CONTRACT - 09/28/06
Maryland-based Lockheed Martin has signed a deal with Sheffield company nCode to use its software in the construction of the new Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter F-35. The software will allow enginee...Read More

Nissan Re-invests in Productive North England Car Plant - 09/18/06
Nissan today premiered its new compact crossover vehicle at an event in Paris. The Qashqai is a new vehicle for Europe, inspired by the concept car of the same name presented at the 2004 Geneva Motor ...Read More

Durham Business School second best in UK - 09/15/06
Durham Business School, in North England, has been ranked 2nd best in the UK and 29th overall in Europe in the Financial Times newspaper’s Masters in Management rankings 2006. The 2006...Read More

Manchester Voted Best University - 09/11/06
Manchester University has been voted Sunday Times University of the Year. It not only attracts more applications than anywhere else in Britain, but is planning to propel itself into the global premier...Read More

U.S. BUSINESS MAGAZINE HIGHLIGHTS NORTH ENGLAND'S SUCCESS - 08/25/06
A U.S. business journalist has praised North England’s most vibrant cities after a recent visit to the region. John McCurry, senior editor of expansion planning magazine Site Selection pointed t...Read More

U.S. GOVERNMENT GRANT FOR ANTHRAX VACCINE - 08/25/06
The U.S. government has awarded a $3.9m grant to a leading North-England based biotechnology company to develop an anthrax vaccine with increased stability. Avecia Biotechnology aims to develop a vers...Read More

$400 Million investment in The North of England’s Rail infrastructure - 08/11/06
Accessing cities through out the North of England will become faster and more frequent this year thanks to a $400 million investment in the region’s rail infrastructure.  51 new 100mph trai...Read More

Prime Minister Tony Blair Visits the U.S. - 07/28/06
British Embassy, Washington D.C., July 28, 2006Prime Minister Tony Blair is visiting the United States this week and early next week. The Prime Minister will meet with President Bush in Washington DC ...Read More

North of England Inward Investment Agency Annual Conference - 06/30/06
NoE Conducts Training Conference30 Jun 2006: The UK's North of England Inward Investment Agency (the NoE), which represent the North of England in North America arrived in the region this week for the...Read More

US Mission looks for North East opportunities - 06/26/06
A powerful delegation of academics and business leaders from one of the United States’ leading universities will tomorrow look to the North East for possible business ties. Seventeen of th...Read More

400 engineering jobs on the way thanks to £2m agency grant - 06/09/06
Four hundred new jobs are coming to North England as one of the region’s flagship manufacturing facilities is brought back into use. The Tanfield Group, based in County Durham, has taken...Read More

Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson to open Salford University's £22m health research centre - 05/19/06
Paralympic champion Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson has officially opened the Centre for Health and Social care teaching and research at the University of Salford. The five-storey glass building houses subj...Read More

Launch of Northwest Composites Centre - 05/15/06
A new £2.1million centre for aerospace composite design and manufacture has been launched in Manchester. The Northwest Composites Centre marks a new era in lightweight aircraft design and will u...Read More

UK Grid Build On-Site Data Redundancy Centre - 05/05/06
UK Grid Limited, a fast-growing Internet Service Provider (ISP), stepped-up their operations by building a data storage centre to meet the growing industry trend for extra storage space and increased ...Read More

Liverpool to benefit from wireless network - 05/04/06
Liverpool has been chosen by BT as one of six UK cities to benefit from a newly installed wireless network that will benefit workers and create anytime, anywhere access. Devices will connect to BT's ...Read More

German technology to help secure UK call centre jobs - 05/03/06
A German high-tech company is aiming to help secure North East call centre jobs as part of its ambitious expansion plans in the region. Leipzig-based itCampus is on the verge of signing a deal to op...Read More

Rolls-Royce opens new manufacturing facility at Barnoldswick - 04/28/06
Rolls-Royce today formally opened its new £7 million facility in Barnoldswick that has been designed to manufacture a range of specialised aero-engine components.   This modern, purpos...Read More

£4m funding boost for fluid technology research - 04/12/06
A project which will put the region at the forefront of fluid technology has been given a £4m funding boost. Regional development agency One NorthEast and the Department of Trade an...Read More

Condoleezza Rice Visits North England - 03/30/06
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Blackburn and Liverpool on Friday March 31 and Saturday April 1, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed today. A spokesman said:   ...Read More

UK's Largest Cross-discipline Research Centre Oprens for Business - 03/22/06
The University of Manchester has informally celebrated the handing over of the £38 million Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre. When it is officially opened later this year, the impressive gl...Read More

Initiative Hopes to Have the Midas touch - 03/20/06
Companies throughout the North East are being given a helping hand to address the massive rise in costs of energy, water and raw materials. The Midas initiative, led by regional development agency ...Read More

Call Centre Firm Expands - 03/18/06
Call centre operator Vertex has secured a contract worth at least £45 million with Deutsche Bank to provide services to the bank's mortgage customers. As a result, Vertex, a subsidiary of Warrin...Read More

Top Place In The UK Is Manchester - 03/14/06
http://www.ukan.org.my/news/fullstory.asp?id=4739 The "most enterprising and creative place" in the United Kingdom is Manchester, according to a public policy expert and best-selling author who spoke ...Read More

New Companies at Salford Innovation Centre - 03/10/06
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) has announced funding of up to £5.9 million for the development of an Innovation Forum Centre in Salford. The project, being led by Salford City ...Read More

Experts at The Sage for power debate - 03/07/06
The North East will showcase its cutting-edge new and renewable energy testing facilities when world experts gather in Tyneside for a major conference tomorrow. A party of 60 US, South African, Europ...Read More

Plant cell breakthrough holds promise for healthcare market… - 03/07/06
The Centre of Excellence for Life Sciences (CELS), the organisation driving growth of the healthcare economy of the North East, has secured £200,000 funding to help scientists in the region pion...Read More

Shipping giant’s UK Fleet Management relocating to the region - 03/01/06
One of the world's biggest shipping groups is relocating part of its business to the North East. The Maersk Company Limited, which currently runs its UK operations from Canary Wharf in London, is tra...Read More

MedImmune to increase operations by ten-fold in Speke - 02/26/06
MedImmune, the US biotech company based at Speke has announced a significant expansion of activity at the site, following approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its flu vaccine, FluMi...Read More

Northwest named top UK region for manufacturing - 02/24/06
Results from the Office of National Statistics reveal that the Northwest region stands proud as the powerhouse of British manufacturing. It has more manufacturing employees than any other region - 414...Read More

Northwest Universities come out top of the popularity leagues - 02/20/06
Figures released this month confirm that The University of Manchester remains the UK's most popular university. The University has received more than 56,000 applications to its undergraduate courses s...Read More

Region celebrates 100% broadband access - 02/13/06
Every telephone exchange in the Yorkshire and Humber is now enabled for broadband, making it one of just three UK regions to have achieved 100 per cent enablement thanks to Yorkshire Forward support. ...Read More

Major investment in stem cell research at Centre for Life - 02/11/06
Work starts today (Saturday, 11 February) on a £3.8m upgrade of fertility services and stem cell research facilities at the Centre for Life in Newcastle. The £3.8m investment, under the ...Read More

University of Manchester launches £40million research institute - 01/30/06
The University of Manchester has entered the New Year on a high note in launching a new £40 million world-class research institute, which will pioneer cutting-edge light and laser technologies. ...Read More

BBC announces two preferred sites - 01/25/06
Earlier this month the BBC announced that it has short-listed two preferred sites for its relocation to England's Northwest. Proposals for creating a Media Zone at Quays Point, Salford Quays, and Manc...Read More

Liverpool University scientists lead on major European project - 01/22/06
Liverpool University is working with the Italian pharmaceutical company Fidia on a major clinical engineering project, with Liverpool scientists leading the team of 23 academic and industrial partners...Read More

Nuclear Academy's £20million offers a wealth of opportunities for Cumbria and US partners - 01/20/06
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has announced its plans for investing £20 million over the next three years in Cumbria to turn it into a world-class centre of excellence for nuclear ...Read More

Blackpool is Favoutite to Win Super Casino Licence - 01/17/06
The starting shot has been fired and the competition is now on to award a super-casino licence, set to be granted by the Government, to one winning UK location. Blackpool in the Northwest is currently...Read More

It's now 100% broadband Yorkshire! - 01/03/06
Every telephone exchange in the Yorkshire and the Humber region has been enabled for broadband making it one of just three UK regions to have achieved 100% enablement, it has been confirmed.   Th...Read More