![]() 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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