The QT

Friday 17 May 2024
17/05/2024

Blyth

Investment Catapults Blyth’s offshore ambitions

Blyth Valley MP Ian Levy says Northumberland can look forward to a ‘prosperous’ future following the news that a world-leading wind turbine testing facility is to be built in the county. The £86m investment was announced earlier this week by Science, Innovation and Research Minister, Andrew Griffith, with the new facility equipped to test 150m …

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COMMUNITIES HELD BACK: If the country’s former mining communities were brought together they would form the most deprived region in the UK, according to a new report published this week. The State of the Coalfields 2024 report said that 40 years after the Miners’ Strike began people living in former mining communities face lower pay …

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GREAT IDEA: The organiser of the Great North Run has formed a partnership with UK Athletics and London Marathon Events to grow athletics in the UK and bring major events to the country. The partnership will deliver the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham and the annual edition of the Diamond League in the UK. …

Shining a light on region’s solar pioneers

It somehow feels appropriate that Solar Capture Technologies, a small company with big ideas, is housed in the Brunel Building. Engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel was one of the UK’s greatest innovators — a poster child of the Industrial Revolution — and as we strive to engineer a green industrial revolution today, it’s no exaggeration to …

‘Trailblazer’ Hunt gets priorities right

Typically there’s not an awful lot of mystery left when it comes to Budget day. However, Jeremy Hunt had a few positive surprises for the North East. Most notably, the Chancellor announced a ‘trailblazer’ devolution deal for the North East, which the official Budget documents say ‘will provide a package of new funding potentially worth …

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GIGAFACTORY TALKS: Administrators EY said they have held discussions with other potential buyers of the gigafactory site in Cambois, Northumberland, where Britishvolt planned to build. The nearly £4 billion plant had been promised around £100 million of Government grants if it could reach certain milestones, but it collapsed at the start of last year. After …

Funding for community heritage projects

The untold stories of Newcastle’s drag scene is one of six North East projects awarded grants under a scheme which seeks to celebrate the region’s diverse local heritage. The ventures chosen by Historic England as part of its Everyday Heritage programme to explore working class history have collectively been awarded more than £80,000 to dig …

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