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Manufacturing & Industry
Why North-East rules the waves
THE North-East leads other English regions in its achievements as an exporter. A culture created outstandingly over more than 150 years as a workshop of the world continues, its evolving nature in keeping with a changing economy.
Breaking out of a strait jacket
Some grand old names of manufacturing, as well as bright young sparks, are flying high in the North-East companies' growth stakes. And villages as well as cities are sharing in prosperity, says Brian Nicholls.
King Coal, Queen Oil could rule ok
COAL and oil are poised to come back big time in the North-East.
Just when many analysts and commentators had felt that elusiveness of the North Sea's remaining reserves was ending an era there, Sonhoe Development Company has announced plans for a £2bn oil refinery with a difference.
