THE man behind a Northumberland brewery has been shortlisted for a national award for young entrepreneurs. Tom Hick, 28, set up Allendale Brewery in 2006, building a business which now supplies more than 100 pubs across the region.Read
A TALENTED North East dancer with “unbelievable potential” has launched her own blog in a bid to attract sponsorship for an exclusive London school.Read
ANORTH council was ordered to pay more than £20,000 yesterday after it emerged a school caretaker had been exposed to 100 times the safe level of asbestos.Read
AN American rail company has bought a majority share of a troubled North East tourist railway. Iowa Pacific Holdings, which operates 700 miles of track in the USA, has taken a 75% stake in Weardale Railway.Read