![]() Reviving the region is an important test for government plans to reduce Britain’s dependence on financial services and the prosperous southeast.Įmpty offices blight the hollowed-out city of Middlesbrough, where you can park for three pounds a day - perhaps a tenth of the cost in London. ![]() Life expectancy is among the lowest in the country. The northeast has the highest unemployment rate and the lowest household incomes in the UK. The iron, steel, shipbuilding and mining industries of the northeast are now a shadow of what they once were. Back in 1862, Prime Minister William Gladstone marvelled at the might of next-door Middlesbrough, calling it the ‘infant Hercules’. ![]() Just over 20 years ago, 12,000 people worked at Wilton on the banks of the River Tees in northeast England. Boarded up shops are seen in Grangetown near Middlesbrough, northern England November 6, 2011.
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