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Calls for new Durham County Council administration to progress with Aykley Heads business park
The demolition of the current council headquarters at Aykley Heads to create a new business park has been put in doubt
An artists impression of how the new site at at Aykley Heads could look if Durham County Councils planning application for a new business park with the potential to create thousands of jobs worth up to £400m to the regions economy is successful. (Image: Durham County Council)
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North Tyneside updates LIVE: Travel advice is not law, Number 10 confirms
North Tyneside is one of eight areas to be included in Government travel guidance advising against movement into and out of the borough
North Tyneside is one of eight areas to be included in Government travel guidance advising against movement into and out of the borough
Government advice not to travel into, or out of, North Tyneside is not law, Number 10 has confirmed.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman stressed that the new Government advice affecting eight Indian variant hotspot areas, including North Tyneside, was “not statutory”.
The spokesman said: “It is important to emphasise that this is guidance, these are not statutory restrictions placed on those local areas.
THE Government has been accused of causing “unnecessary panic” over new guidance telling people not to travel in and out of North Tyneside. It emerged on Monday night that the borough was one of eight council areas in England which should be avoided “unless it is essential” due to outbreaks of the fast-spreading Indian strain of Covid-19. But local officials were left stunned by the guidance, which it appears was published online last Friday night without any official announcement being made. North Tyneside MP Mary Glindon said that she, public health officials, and council bosses were “completely in the dark”.
Calls for the UK to capitalise on the opportunity for EV battery gigafactories
Plans have been outlined to build gigafactories in the North East and elsewhere, but significant challenges remain
13:19, 17 MAY 2021
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Turn the clock back 12 months and it’s fair to say that the term ‘gigafactory’ was not in wide usage.
That changed substantially at the end of last year when start-up company Britishvolt pledged to create 3,000 jobs, plus thousands more in the supply chain, with plans for a gigafactory to make batteries for electric vehicles at Cambois, near Blyth in Northumberland.