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Northern Rock

Northern Rock relaunched to boost mortgage market

NORTHERN Rock will today be re-launched as a ‘good bank’ with around £14bn to boost mortgage lending.Read

The former Newcastle Breweries building

Hotel planned for former Scottish & Newcastle brewery site

THE former home of Scottish & Newcastle breweries is to be turned into a four-star hotel after a Canadian company bought the striking 13-storey block.Read

Coca-Cola in threat to halve Morpeth staff

JOB losses are threatened at Northumberland drinks firm Waters & Robson just a month after Coca-Cola bought the near cen- tury-old business.Read

Nissan

Nissan factory workers sent home till Monday

CAR maker Nissan last night sent home all 3,500 production workers at its Washington plant and told them not to come back until Monday.Read

Newcastle Stephenson Quarter images revealed

THESE are the first detailed images of the new £200m Stephenson Quarter of Newcastle city centre which received planning permission yesterday.Read

Newcastle regeneration plans approved

Multi-million pound plans to develop a large area of Newcastle city centre have been approved.Read

Now Rock sells off new £100m offices

NORTHERN Rock is to sell off its two new £100m office developments in the North East in a clear signal that the nationalised bank will have to live more cheaply in the future.Read

Negative equity is new fear for Rock

UP TO 140,000 Northern Rock homes could be in negative equity within the next 18 months.Read

World watches as Rock gets big name

A SENIOR director of banking group Barclays yesterday agreed to take up the challenge of leading Northern Rock back to independence in the private sector.Read

Barratt to axe 1,000 jobs as crisis bites

THE crisis in the housebuilding industry saw Barratt announce around 1,000 jobs losses yesterday, with 50 set to go at the company’s Newcastle office.Read

Penny Plain pulls down the shutters

FASHION store Penny Plain has gone out of business for the second time in five months with the expected loss of 115 jobs.Read