Jobs hope on Teesside
The North East still has the highest unemployment rates in the country, but there is better news in Billingham, where the international firm SNF has submitted plans to build a new oil plant, which would create 250 new jobs.
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As HMS Ark Royal leaves for Turkey at the aircraft carrier which was built at Newcastle's Swan Hunter shipyard.
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