BUSINESSWOMAN Hannah Doran believes that her job as an office junior in the legal world gave her the essential skills and experience for her successful administrative support agency. Starting as a 17 year old school leaver, she had to work her way up
Oil NRG, one of the few independent, privately-owned fuel and oil distributors in the North East, has moved its head office from Stokesley to larger premises in Stockton.During the last 18 months continued growth in business has seen its tanker fleet
FIRING a canon, making ropes and climbing a ships mast are among the activities on offer by a new "Corporate Experience".The unusual team-building activities are on offer at HMS Trincomalee at Hartlepool Marina. The oldest vessel afloat in
EAMONN Elliott (pictured) has been appointed chief executive of Rockliffe Hall in Hurworth, near Darlington.November sees the hotel celebrate its fifth anniversary and Mr Elliott will join in December to take it through its next phase of development.He
A SWALEDALE pub has re-opened with support from the Black Sheep Brewery.Nick and Karen Glanvill have carried out extensive refurbishment on the King’s Head in Gunnerside.As well as re-roofing, structural repairs, and refurnishing the pub, the couple
JACKSONS Law Firm of Stockton has promoted five members of staff and recruited six new members. Victoria Pounder, head of Jacksons’ construction and engineering team has been made a partner just nine months with the firm. Inderjit Gill of the commercial
ENVIRONMENT Secretary Liz Truss told delegates at The Northern Farming Conference in Hexham that farming is "a sunrise industry, with lots of opportunities."She said food and farming is worth £100bn a year to the UK economy and employs one in
DAIRY Crest has agreed to sell its dairies operations to the Muller UK & Ireland Group for £80m cash.Yesterday's announcement said the deal - which has to be approved by shareholders and competition authorities - was in the best interests of consumers
THE Yorkshire group of the Farming Community Network (FCN) has opened its annual Silent Auction with 50 Lots. They include lessons in hedge laying, garden design, fly fishing and dry stone walling; choices of food hampers, cream teas, Christmas cakes,
FARMERS across Yorkshire and the North East are facing a totally unacceptable wait for the launch of the new agriculture section of the GOV.UK website, says the NFU.Following the recent review of the Common Agricultural Policy, all farmers are required
DAIRY farmers from across the North of England are urged to attend the NFU's Northern Dairy Conference in Skipton on Tuesday, December 9.The half-day event is especially important this year given the severe problems affecting the sector. Debate is raging
ROD Cordingley, the newly elected chairman of the Livestock Auctioneers Association (LAA), has called on the industry to communicate better with consumers about livestock farming and production.The auctioneer from Stephenson & Son at York Auction Centre
DAIRY producers should plan ahead to make the most of capital or trading losses before milk quota is abolished in April 2015, according to rural accountant Old Mill. Dan Knight, senior manager, said the end of the milk quota regime will likely result
GERALD Turton's Upsall herd swept the board and achieved the top prices at the fifth North of England Beef Shorthorn Club show and sale of pedigree beef breeding cattle at Skipton on November 5.Tessa X902 of Upsall, the first prize 2013-born junior heifer
STANDING four-square and whitewashed, braced against the weather, in gloriously-remote upper Teesdale, the Langdon Beck Hotel is a welcoming beacon for walkers after a hard day in the hills.Coal fires blaze in the bars for most months of the year, two
From this newspaper 50 years ago. – Three North-East farmers co-operatives who cover the East and North-East Coast and have between them an annual turnover of £7,101,386, have decided to merge. The decision reached by the different boards to do so
RETURNING to a familiar theme – the absence of evening dining options in Northallerton beyond Pizza Express, the Golden Lion and the ethnics – it was good to hear that a new restaurant opened in the town in the summer. Evening meal choices had
By Sarah Willcocks WALKING into the turreted mini castle that is now home to Gazebo Antiques and Vintage it is hard to believe that this striking building stood empty for 20 years. “It’s such a fabulous space,” says Karen Little, who opened her
by Peter Bevan THE internationally renowned pianist Angela Hewitt is to return to Darlington next year in the first of two special memorial recitals for David Robson, who was this newspaper’s principal reviewer of classical music over several decades
DURING the early days of this month we have been privileged to observe a murmuration of starlings as they perform their aerobatic flights around our village. This demonstration is something we fail to understand. For reasons unknown, starlings
FOR some time, environmentalists and horticulturists have been urging gardeners to let their grass grow a bit longer, leave at least one area of their garden wild and create nooks and crannies in the form of log piles to allow wildlife to flourish.
HAROLD Pinter’s 1957 absurdist play is a challenging proposition for any theatre group. Noted for surviving a hostile reception when first performed, this was a bold choice for Richmond Amateur Dramatic Society’s autumn show. The stage set perfectly
DELEGATES at last week's Northern Farming Conference were generally impressed with the performance of new Environment Secretary Liz Truss.She seemed to have quickly got to grips with her new brief – or at least listened carefully to her civil servants
FEW people more richly deserved to collect a honour at Yorkshire's annual tourism award this week than Ian Ashton.Thirsk's World of James Herriot won the title of best Small Visitor Attraction at the White Rose Awards in Harrogate on Monday - one better
Wensleydale LeagueWITH league leaders Hawes United not in action, second placed Unicorn FC cut the gap at the top of the table to just a single point with a 3-2 home victory over improving Richmond Town Academy. Tom Keegan gave Unicorn a 14th minute lead
