The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has agreed to the funding days after Durham County Council pledged the same amount.
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Lord Adonis' report More and Better Jobs: North East International was commissioned by the North East local enterprise partnership, comprising representatives from councils between Northumberland and Durham.
In March Gwynedd council leader Dyfed Edwards said hundreds of millions of pounds could be saved if the existing six north Wales local authorities were replaced by just two.
The Yorkshire MP's proposals provoked tens of thousands of people to post comments on the Facebook and Twitter sites of Look North, his local BBC regional TV news programme.
As well as analysis of the current political news in the North East and Cumbria, you'll find some of my reports from Look North, local radio and the Politics Show, and updates on what I'm up to (just so my family knows, I think).
"You'll never have a conversation like this in the north, " a local analyst warned after a detailed two-hour interview.
The north Belfast dispute involves local factions of the two loyalist organisations.
Dr John Crompton, from North Yorkshire's Local Medical Committee, said while GPs "had an open mind" about the Telehealth scheme, they remained unconvinced.
She has previous experience as a teacher and small business owner, and serves on North Carolina's Local Government Commission, and Economic Development Board.
"The region's growth pains are being magnified many times over by these Olympics, " said Vladimir Kimayev, a leader of Environmental Watch of the North Caucasus, a local group.
The arguments on the Humber Estuary are being repeated across the North of England as local authorities face up to the fact that they will not be able to meet tough new limits on the use of landfill set by both our Government and the European Commission.
This latter criteria has become especially important in North African nations where local populations have been wary about the involvement of international partners and eager to make sure that any new energy development from Tangiers to Cairo include strict stipulations that ensure more local jobs, training and that domestic energy demand is met before shipping out to the European or Asian markets.
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Every local authority in north Wales will also be asked to welcome the announcement.
The plant would take waste left over after recycling and composting from five local authorities in north Wales.
This is undoubtedly a victory for local campaigners in North Acton and Ealing.
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For a while her local Jobcentre in north London allowed her to visit out-of-hours because of the attention she attracted in the media.
But in border cities in the provinces of Limburg and North Brabant, there are local officials and residents who support the introduction of a weed pass.
After dropping out of school at 16 and trying his luck as a scallop fisherman, he became a copy boy on his local paper in North Carolina.
The unemployment rate in five other UK regions is higher than the local rate: North East (9.3%), London (7.3%), Scotland (6.7%), Wales (6.2%) and Yorkshire and Humber (6.2%).
With local exceptions, north Florida is reliably Republican, and shares far more with the rest of the Deep South than with the southern reaches of its own state.
New business has come from the Bahamas, Argentina, Oman and Indonesia, with underlying revenues in its local division in North America up by 33% in the first quarter, and Australian business growing particularly strongly.
This research must integrate across existing research programmes and disciplines, across all domains of research, across the North and South, include local knowledge systems, and be co-designed and implemented with input from governments, civil society, research funders and the private sector.
In this suit, Northern plaintiffs allege they weren't told that when they signed on with local asbestos lawyers, their cases were actually handed off to firms in Texas, Mississippi and North Carolina under agreements that brought the local attorneys only 2.5% to 5% of any contingency fees--typically 40% of a settlement.
Highland Council officers had recommended that the local authority's north planning applications committee raised no objection to the plans.
Not suprisingly, local councils in the north are changing their housing policies.
But at the launch of the Conservatives' local election campaign on North Tyneside, Mr Cameron said the government now had a "time horizon".
The Environment Agency is asking local authorities in the north of England for a 63% increase in funding for flood protection schemes to avert another similar disaster.
Among those appointed ACCs are acting Central Scotland Chief Constable Derek Penman, who will cover local policing for the north area, and Strathclyde Assistant Chief Constable Bernie Higgins, who will take on the operational support role.
The North Carolina Offshore Wind Coalition, a lobbying outfit for the wind industry and local wind advocates, has put legislation into play in the North Carolina legislature that would likely result in the development of a whopping 2.5 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2027.
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