AN Indian businessman who pioneered renewable energy technology in Asia is to create 60 jobs on Tyneside with the launch of a £5m-a-year solar panel manufacturing plant.Read
THE owner of a former Tyneside shipyard is preparing to invest £50m in converting part of the site into a facility to make wind turbine foundations – creating hundreds of jobs.Read
AFTER 28 years as a freemason, George Laws is backing a policy of openness in the movement - and now he has gone a step further by compiling a book on freemasonry.Read
POLICE are hunting three men believed to be at the centre of an organised fight that ended with a man being gunned down outside his home. Paul Borg was wounded in the leg by the blast after a violent disturbance broke out in Willington Quay, North Tyneside, on Thursday evening.Read
THE last visible reminder of Newcastle’s once-proud shipbuilding heritage disappeared in a cloud of dust when the final two Swan Hunter cranes were blown up yesterday.Read
COMPUTER recycler Ernie Nolan is set to cast his net wider in a personal mission to make life greener. Ernie is a director of Acorn Computer Recycling, which refurbishes donated junked machines and also uses spare parts to build new systems.Read
A MAN is due to appear in court today charged with murder. Dennis Long is due to appear before magistrates charged with the murder of a 61-year-old woman.Read
COUNCIL chiefs have provoked anger after it emerged they gritted a Porsche garage car park while leaving areas outside pensioners’ homes untreated.Read
ORGANISERS of an international wheelchair race are desperately trying to plug a £50,000 hole in their funding after losing two of its main sources of money.Read