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  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    News in-depthUK politics
    Reform UK’s first week running local government

    Rightwing populist group has inherited acute financial crises after election wins across England

    Darren Grimes speaking in Durham county council’s chambers
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Reform mayor backs pro-green investment partnership

    Luke Campbell joins northern partnership with clean energy focus despite party’s anti-net zero stance

    Luke Campbell
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Nissan Motor Co Ltd
    Nissan says China state automaker could start producing in Sunderland plant

    Chief calls for UK government support while saying he is open to sharing factory with Dongfeng

    A Nissan Juke hybrid vehicle on the production line of the carmaker’s plant in Sunderland
  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    Business InsightJohn Gapper
    Sage needs to scale faster from Newcastle to the world

    The 44-year-old UK software company has regained confidence as it emerges from a turbulent decade

    Sage HQ in Newcastle
  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2025
    Sarah O'Connor
    Anatomy of a jobs promise

    Eye-catching boosterism about employment from new projects does not always stand up to scrutiny

    A rendering of a proposed new data centre on land near Cambois, Northumberland
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    England’s mayors in diplomacy dance to shift balance of power

    Officials hope summits involving regions and centre can lead to devolution of decision-making and growth initiatives

    Keir Starmer talks with Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill, left, regional mayors Oliver Coppard, centre, and Andy Burnham and Northern Ireland’s deputy first Minister Emma Little-Pengelly during the first Council of Nations and Regions in Edinburgh
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Starmer tells police to stay on ‘high alert’ as UK rioters jailed

    PM says police operations and swift execution of justice have acted as a deterrent after days of violence

    Keir Starmer speaks to police officers
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    ReviewFiction
    True Love — melancholy and lyricism in England’s north-east

    Paddy Crewe conjures loss, alienation and 1980s deprivation in a striking departure from his 1830s-set debut ‘My Name is Yip’

    A black-and-white photo of two distant figures on a deserted seashore
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Travel
    From coal to culture: Bishop Auckland’s unlikely renaissance

    Bankrolled by a wealthy financier, the former mining town in County Durham is opening galleries, museums and smart new places to stay

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    ReviewTheatre
    The Bounds, Royal Court — politics and power in Tudor football drama

    Stewart Pringle summons echoes of Beckett as two villagers endure an ominous wait on the sidelines

  • Sunday, 31 March, 2024
    House & Home
    How metalwork moved from shipbuilding to furniture-making

    Heritage skills lost with the decline of heavy industry are being adapted in contemporary design

    A member of the Novocastrian team, based in Newcastle, working on the metal Rib Coffee Table
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Travel & leisure industry
    The 26-year-old owner of Sunderland football club betting on youth

    Kyril Louis-Dreyfus wants his club back in the Premier League and has built an unusually young squad to try to achieve this

    Footage of Kyril Louis-Dreyfus signing a football programme for fans from ‘Sunderland ’Til I Die’ TV series
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    Nissan Motor Co Ltd
    Nissan to lead £2bn electric-car investment in Sunderland plant

    Deal would turn facility into all-EV factory as Japanese group transitions models to green energy

    Nissan’s Qashqai car in a Nissan factory in Sunderland, England
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
    Nissan Motor Co Ltd
    Nissan set to build two new electric models at its Sunderland plant

    Japanese carmaker expected to invest £1bn and allay any uncertainty over future of its UK factory

    Workers on the production line at Nissan’s factory in Sunderland
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
    ReviewVisual Arts
    Matt Rugg, Hatton Gallery — abstract sculpture finds the beauty in shrapnel

    The show in Newcastle brings to life the artist’s thoughtful use of rough materials

    A black and white photo shows a man using a large saw on a block of wood
  • Monday, 7 August, 2023
    News in-depthUK politics
    Hybrid working put to the test as ‘London-centric’ UK civil service heads north

    Treasury’s move to Darlington campus is designed to level up Britain by creating new career paths in left-behind regions

    General view of Darlington town centre
  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    FT Magazine
    I ran food markets for eight years. This is what I learnt

    Markets are full of fads, showmanship — and the occasional faker. Here’s how to make the most of them

  • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
    UK local government finance
    Teesside mayor struck secret deal to transfer Hartlepool property

    Previous agreements by Ben Houchen to shift assets to developers ‘lacked transparency’

    Ben Houchen
  • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
    ReviewFiction
    Cuddy — a risk-taking epic that north-east England deserves

    Benjamin Myers’s latest novel tells the story of St Cuthbert and his influence from the Dark Ages to the present day

    Statue of St Cuthbert in silhouette, with Lindisfarne Castle in the background
  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    Britishvolt
    Australian battery group selected as preferred bidder for Britishvolt

    Recharge Industries beats three rival offers in race to buy UK start-up out of bankruptcy

    Rendering of Britishvolt site in Blyth, Northumberland
  • Friday, 23 December, 2022
    The Weekend Essay
    Lucy Kellaway’s lessons on life from moving to the North East

    Six months after relocating from London, the former FT columnist has a new perspective on what really matters

  • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
    Newcastle United Football Co Ltd
    Newcastle United owners invest £70mn to compete with rivals

    Fresh capital injection brings total investment to more than £450mn

    Newcastle United’s Miguel Almiron, left, celebrates after scoring during a recent match against Aston Villa
  • Friday, 26 August, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    ‘People are going to die’: verdict from front line of Britain’s energy crisis

    Rundown community was already living on a financial ‘knife edge’ before huge rise in price cap

  • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
    UK economy
    Fears of CO₂ shortage after UK rules out state support for factory

    Food industry sounds alarm over CF Industries’ closure of Billingham facility

  • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
    The Big Read
    Will the next Tory prime minister forget about levelling up the UK?

    South Shields took the government at its word and developed a plan based on clean energy. But some fear Westminster will lose interest

    A construction worker in hard hat and hi-vis jacket looks down on the redevelopment of the old docks at South Shields
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