In many ways, the story of Glasgow North East is the story of post-industrial Britain.
In Yorkshire and the Humber the figure is nearly 15, 000 and in the North East it is nearly 8, 000.
But not everybody in the North-East is convinced that regional government would work.
The Met Office snow warning for north east Wales is in place from 09:00 GMT on Friday with the possibility of travel disruption.
Atlanto-Scandian herring is a distinct stock that is found in the north-east Atlantic and is separate from North Sea and West of Scotland herring.
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Fourthly, maybe the north-east is just living up to its past.
Even though word of the grand projects dotted around the north-east is attracting workers from all over the country, the demand is such that Odebrecht is training everyone from carpenters and bricklayers to truck drivers and forklift operators itself.
Though iron ore is no longer mined in the North East, it is shipped to the facility from around the world.
In south-east England, it's 74% of the workforce, north-east England is again worst off with 65%, while the UK average is 70%, and Scotland's again doing slightly better at 71%.
Bath and North East Somerset Council is expanding its kerbside recycling service to include small electricals.
We've got the Hitachi plant in the North East, which is going to employ 700.
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Bath and North East Somerset Council is to renovate Grand Parade, New Market Row, the indoor market, and the historic colonnades.
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The number of confirmed cases of measles across the north east of England is continuing to rise, according to health officials.
On the opposite bank of the estuary, North East Lincolnshire Council is also trying to deal with problems caused by the caterpillars.
After all, Somaliland in the north has already broken away and Puntland, in the north-east, is tenuously connected to the rump of Somalia.
However Bath and North East Somerset Council is still awaiting approval of its planning application which is being considered by committee on 24 October.
Bath and North East Somerset Council is holding a public consultation over whether to double the intake at Paulton Infant and Paulton Junior schools.
"Our special relationship with the north east of England is a source of great pride to the company, " said the RSC's artistic director Gregory Doran.
North-east England is the only region to have fewer than Scotland.
The owner of a North East business park is optimistic plans for a new hospital will go ahead despite a government decision to scrap the development.
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The project has suffered some delay and the Bath and North East Somerset Council is still looking for a private backer to offset some of the cost.
The question now for the North East and Cumbria is can the private sector grow fast enough to cushion the impact of big spending cuts on the English region that is most dependent on the public sector?
It is also rebuilding the main roads in the war-shattered north and east, and is constructing a state-of-the-art performance-arts centre.
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Simon Hart, a former director of social services in north-east England, is to oversee improvements.
The greatest untapped resource in the Middle East and North Africa is the talent of its people.
For example, John Bridge, chief executive of the North-East agency, is keen to spend more on improving the skills of those already in work.
He later returns to government as Africa Minister, but Chief Whip and fellow North East MP Hilary Armstrong is seen in the play as instrumental in preventing him succeed Clare Short as International Development Secretary.
In 2006-09 the region's GDP (excluding Inner Mongolia, which extends into the north-east, but is not part of its industrial heartland) grew faster than that of the country's other three main economic regions, in the east, centre and west.
The situation in the Middle East and North Africa is a little tricky, as higher oil prices generally mean greater profits for companies in the oil sector, while political and social violence could mean halting operations and difficulty in transportation and sales.
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The first is unemployment of educated young people in North Africa and the Middle East which is not yet a political movement or social upheaval in the US or Europe- but which is in the forefront of public policy and partisan politics.
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