North Brains Take Over From Muscle Power ; in Association with Rbs Manufacturers in the North East Are Beginning to Win the Battle Against Cheap Foreign Competition According to a New Survey. Iain Laing Looks at the Sector's Renaissance

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THIS region was once synonymous with large-scale manufacturing.

Shipbuilding and steel engineering were, along with coalmining, the mainstays of the economy.

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North Brains Take Over From Muscle Power ; in Association with Rbs Manufacturers in the North East Are Beginning to Win the Battle Against Cheap Foreign Competition According to a New Survey. Iain Laing Looks at the Sector's Renaissance

Now the North East is no longer the engine room of Britain. Ships are no longer made on the Tyne and most of the pits were shut nearly a quarter of a century ago.

But manufacturing still makes up nearly a third of the region's economic output. This famously resilient region has survived the mass...

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