TODAY the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced that Teesside had been successful for a bid to bring a Freeport to the region.
The bid, submitted to Government just a month ago by Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen, covers sites across the region, including Teesworks, Wilton International, Teesside International Airport, the Port of Middlesbrough, the Port of Hartlepool, Liberty Steel, LV Shipping and PD Ports.
Here's how leaders and politicans reacted to Teesside being named as one of eight areas that will soon have a Freeport.
Ben Houchen, Tees Valley Mayor, said: “Future generations will look back on today and say this was the day Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool was reborn as an industrial powerhouse.