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One NorthEast One NorthEast is to help fund the development of a new training centre for the chemical industry, with the creation of 25 jobs, and a number of potential sites in Teesside will be considered. 09-Nov-2007 One NorthEast is to help fund the development of a £2.3m International Marine Design Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne by March, in order to help the region win international ship design contracts. 14-Feb-2007 One NorthEast is to provide funding of £2.3m to the RSPB and Teesside Environmental Trust to develop a £7m wildlife visitor attraction and nature reserve at Saltholme near Stockton, which will create 23 jobs. 22-Nov-2006 One NorthEast and County Durham Economic Partnership are planning to set up a £10m Plastic Electronics Technology Centre at NETPark in Sedgefield by 2008, including clean rooms, laboratories, offices and an initial ten staff. 15-Sep-2006 One NorthEast has awarded a £5m grant for the development of a £26m Great North Museum at the Hancock Museum building in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 16-Feb-2006 One NorthEast is to invest £9.8m in the development of a £25m Institute of Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine in Newcastle. 01-Dec-2005 One NorthEast has offered a £0.14m grant to The Tanfield Food Company to help create 45 jobs at a new gourmet foods manufacturing business in Tanfield Lea. 01-Mar-2005 One NorthEast is supporting plans for a £35m investment at the former Samsung site at Wynyard, which will involve the relocation of 500 jobs by a number of local companies and the creation of a new distribution centre. 18-Nov-2004 One NorthEast has announced that Wynyard Golf Club, near Stockton, has been selected to host the Seve Trophy tournament in 2005, which is expected to create 100 jobs. 25-Aug-2004 One NorthEast and the Department for Trade & Industry are to award a £3.8m funding package to establish an Institute for Bioinformatics at university and business locations in the North East. 15-Jun-2004 One NorthEast has announced a £6.5m funding package for the Centre for Life laboratory in Newcastle, which will go towards research into degenerative diseases. 28-Apr-2004 One NorthEast is in discussions with Shipeng Laboratory of China about the possibility of setting up an office and manufacturing site in the north east to produce large X-ray machines. 26-Feb-2004 One NorthEast is to help fund a feasibility study into the development of a £150m indoor skiing centre at the Widdrington opencast mining site in Northumberland. 04-Dec-2003 One NorthEast and Redcar & Cleveland Council are starting work on the development of a £3m freight park at Middlesbrough Road East, which could create 620 jobs over the next five years. 09-May-2003 One NorthEast has announced that the European Telecommunications Resilience & Recovery Association is to set up a new headquarters at the University of Northumbria's Disaster & Development Centre in Newcastle. 02-May-2003 One NorthEast has outlined proposals to roll out Sunderland's £100m Metro extension across East Durham, in order to regenerate communities between Sunderland and Middlesbrough. 25-Oct-2002 One NorthEast is supporting a £50m Tees Valley Partnership plan to regenerate parts of Teesside, including an ice rink and sports centre in Billingham and schemes to encourage research in the chemical and environmental industries. 24-Sep-2001 One NorthEast, the regional development agency, is to conduct a feasibility study into a 10-year plan to redevelop 250 acres at the port of Sunderland, in order to create a sophisticated freight handling system. 15-Feb-2000 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007