GREGGS BONUS: Thousands of Greggs staff will receive a share of a £17.6m bonus pot after the bakery chain announced a record annual profit and revealed it had overtaken McDonald’s to become the No.1 takeaway breakfast seller in Britain for the first time. Profits increased by 27% to £188m, meaning that 25,000 of its 32,000 …
The North East region will have two fewer parliamentary seats at the next general election than in 2019, down from 29 to 27, and hundreds of thousands of voters will find themselves in an unfamiliar political landscape when they go to the polls in January 2025 at the latest. The region could elect its first …
When Ken Livingstone was elected Mayor of London in 2000, 14 years after his previous power-base the Greater London Council was abolished by Margaret Thatcher, he began his acceptance speech with the words ‘…as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted’. As I return to the task of writing about politics for The QT, …
Over the past week, a regional story that has been bubbling away for years finally received some wider media attention with the report on the Teesworks project, one of the highest profile regeneration schemes in the UK. The land at the centre of the row was once the home of Redcar’s steelworks, dubbed the largest …
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