Industrial Behemoth News Today

Newsnight� s Nicholas Watt reports from tees valley. An icon of a vibrant industrial past, now out of action, symbolising an area struggling to find its feet. Tees valley, an infant hercules in its days as a World Capital of iron and steel making, is now clearing sites of past glories and looking for new ventures. A painful process with economic decline, alongside pockets of affluence. That has placed this area on the National Political map, and now a mayoral contest with high stakes for the t...

Person who can rise above it. labours candidate believes he can tap into the potential of this former industrial behemoth. i was raised here. ive got my mum in redcar, my stepmum in middlesbrough, i brought up my three daughters in darlington. ive worked here for most of my working career, in the nhs. what does this place mean to me? its a place of immense opportunity. it is also a place with challenges, but it is also a place with accessibility to many things. i often talk about, from coast to ...