It said the funding would help it to build foundations for offshore wind farms at its site in Wallsend.

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Ark Royal was built at the Swan Hunter yard at Wallsend in December 1978 and was launched by the Queen Mother.

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The Countryside Agency says the 84-mile Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail, from Wallsend to Bowness on Solway, is now proving a massive tourist hit.

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Birch played for Sydney club Wallsend last winter and is eager to return to Australia to pit her wits against some of her former team-mates.

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Paul Hancox, from Wallsend, in Tyneside, would certainly like that opportunity.

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The steel jacketed foundation, Triton, will be designed and developed by its subsidiary Aquind, at OGN's new purpose-built facility at its Hadrian Yard in Wallsend.

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Nautilus would use massive robotic machines, which are being built in Wallsend, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by a firm with long experience of marine engineering, Soil Machine Dynamics.

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