Back to the Future...
Say hello 👋🏼 to the newly re-branded Teesside International Airport ✈️
Developed by our in-house team, produced by airport-based
@ShutterMedia
What do you think?
#TeessideTakingOff
Breaking news…we’ve made it to the next stage of our bid to host
@RLWC2021
! Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far – to get involved visit or tweet us using the
#RLWC2021
#TeesValley2021
and let us know why you
#backthebid
!
📢TEESSIDE FREEPORT📢
It's official, the
#TeesValley
is to become home to the first and biggest Freeport in the UK📍💪
✅Cover over 4️⃣,5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ acres
👥Create over 18,000 high-skilled jobs
📈Provide a £3.2billion boost to the local economy
📣TREASURY COMES TO TEES VALLEY👏
Chancellor
@RishiSunak
has unveiled Darlington as new location for Treasury North.
👨💼750 government jobs
👷Supporting jobs in sectors such as construction & hospitality
💷Boost to local economy
🚄 The first direct Boro to London service has rolled into the station! 🚄
@LNER
’s Azuma trains are now running to the capital
It has come as work continues on £34m of station upgrades 🙌
Read more 👉
📣 AIRPORT ANNOUNCEMENT 📣
Teesside to Majorca flights confirmed next summer ✈️☀️🇪🇸
For the first time in 7 years, the Tees Valley Mayor
@BenHouchen
has just confirmed that flights to sunny Spain will be returning to Teesside!!!
#TeessideTakingOff
Middlesbrough Mayor
@Tees_Issues
launches a £45m state-of-the-art investment to kick-start a wider £250m development they believe can make the town the UK’s “digital city” 🙌🏼
#UpTheBoro
#TheDigitalCity
Tees Valley Mayor
@BenHouchen
has today announced a £35million transformation of Middlesbrough Station to deliver more train services to the town, including the first direct rail link to London in decades.
Read more here ➡️
Have you heard the latest
#southteesdc
news?
@siriusminerals
have completed the purchase of Bran Sands site. Project involves construction of two mineshafts to access mineral deposit and will create over 2,500 jobs and £2.5bn of annual exports. Read more>
Middlesbrough result for
#TeesValleyMayor
election
#election2024
Ben Houchen (Conservative) - 13,285
Chris McEwan (Labour) - 12,749
Simon Thorley (Liberal Democrat) - 1,390
The transformative new development will include the tallest building for 30 miles, a 20-storey, 250ft-high tower with panoramic views including coastline and moorland
#UpTheBoro
#TheDigitalCity
Top o’ the mornin’ to ya! 🍀
We have some exciting news for you all…
✈️ NEW ROUTES FROM
@TeesAirport
✈️ to Dublin and Belfast City 🇮🇪 announced today by Tees Valley Mayor
@BenHouchen
.
We are going live on Facebook from 9am this morning. Are you ready for take off?
We’ve been at Darlington Station this morning with
@Transport4North
ahead of an exciting launch next week! There’s some huge plans for improving transport in Tees Valley and right across the North.
@darlingtonbc
@TeesValleyMayor
🚆🚆£34million works underway at Middlesbrough Station 🚆🚆 Phase one, extension of platform 2, will increase station capacity and enable LNER London service this year!!
Cabinet has approved £4million to help the Centre for Process Innovation,
@ukCPI
, establish a centre for excellence in bio-manufacturing at its site at the Wilton Centre, Redcar
BIG NEWS!
@takethat
is coming to the Tees Valley as part of their Greatest Hits
#TT30
Tour. Hats off to
@boro
for getting this over the line. This will be the Riverside’s first major music event and it will be huge for the region!
#TalkingUpTeesValley
#UTB
🎶Our very own James Arthur is starring in a documentary tonight about moving back to the region and mental health struggles📽️
Another production, in a long list, filmed in the region so far
The region benefiting from the
@BBC
’s commitment to invest £25million
Tonight BBC3 9pm
.
@TeesValleyMayor
has announced funding to kick-start the next phase of Middlesbrough’s Boho Zone. Boho Next Generation will provide another 10,000 square metres of space for existing and future digital businesses to thrive. Read more >
The stars were truly out in Stockton last night for the fantastic premiere of thrilling new action movie JACKDAW – filmed 100% on location in Tees Valley 📽
TVCA backed the film’s production through its support of North East Screen – and this is just the start 🎬
#jackdawfilm
The first London City flight took to the sky this morning from
@TeesAirport
, as flights to new destinations depart during its phased reopening✈️
This is the first Teesside to London flight in more than a decade, with flights to Newquay also starting today
Mayor Houchen has continued his Albanian trade mission by meeting the Mayor of Tirana, Albania's capital city 🇦🇱
Mayor Veliaj learned about the transformation of
@TeesworksUK
and
#TeessideFreeport
🙌
He also met the UK Ambassador to Albania🤝
➡
🍾Congratulations to our LEP members awarded New Year Honours🍾
Professor Paul Croney was recognised for his impact on higher education with an OBE. 🎖️
Brenda McLeish was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Honours List for her services to further education. 🎖️
Well done to them!
Calling all local businesses to
#BacktheBid
for
#TeesValley
to host Rugby League World Cup 2021 matches & attend upcoming event to find out more about the benefits of supporting the application!
Read more about this story >
**Tees Valley’s Creative & Culture Sector Gets £16.5m Boost**
NEW Programme will support business, attract new events, grow local festivals and boost region’s profile. Find out more ➡️
Today I officially start my job as an investigative reporter at the
@yorkshirepost
looking into all things related to the Teesside freeport.
But it looks like TVCA are doing a little bit of looking into things themselves... Their PR company has been checking me out on LinkedIn.
Kirkleatham’s Walled Garden is due to open this Spring 🍃🌱🌳🌻
With a maze🌳, restaurant🍴 and training facilities👨🌾, the development is set to create 40 jobs and attract up to 70,000 visitors 👨👩👧👦
How amazing does it look? 🎥
@RedcarCleveland
@EnjoyTeesValley
Two major funds earmarked for our region today in the Chancellor's budget. Huge boost for Jobs, our town centres and the South Tees Development Corporation.
Today we unveiled our new draft Strategic Transport Plan.
We’re investing £256.7m into transport projects in the period 2019-2029 and this plan will help to direct these funds.
Read more here➡️
To complete our questionnaire, visit
@BenHouchen
(Conservative) is re-elected as the Tees Valley Mayor
Jessie Joe Jacobs (Labour) - 45,641
Ben Houchen (Conservative) - 121,964
#Election2021
Led by
@hartlepoolfe
, students from H'pool & M'brough colleges are taking part in a manufacturing design challenge looking at the future of home building with
@MOBIE
&
@MrGeorgeClarke
. Good luck to the shortlisted students in the running for the 5K prize pot!
🗣 Tees Valley Mayor
@BenHouchen
“This is a huge coup for Teesside. The Killers are a global brand who have headlined Glastonbury, sold millions of records and filled stadiums and arenas around the world and now they’re coming to
@Boro
”
#UTB
#TalkingUpTeesValley
🚦Darlington railway station transformation gets green light🚦
The £105m development has been signed off by planners
@darlingtonbc
and will include:
🚉A new station building
🚄New concourse
🏗️Multi-storey car park
🚴Transport hub
Read more:
We’re gearing up for Tees Valley Mayor
@BenHouchen
#OneYearOn
event at
@AVDawson
. One year on from his election, The Mayor will be updating a packed room on his record of action and his promise of more.
The Mayor firstly met with Takashi Miyaki, the Managing Executive Officer, and COO of Mitsubishi Chemical MMA Business Domain and his team.
@benhouchen
thanked them for their substantial investment already in the region and highlighted the new opportunities and Tees Valley plans
The Tees Valley Airshow, which last took to the skies in 2017, will return to Teesside International Airport on Sunday, May 24 ✈️
For more information and to purchase tickets, click here ➡️
@EnjoyTeesValley
@TeesAirshow
@TeesAirport
We are looking for three highly motivated and experienced people with backgrounds in the cultural industries or destination development to fill three new Creative Place Development Officer roles in the new ‘Creative Place’ team.
Find out more➡️
If the
@Novavax
vaccine is approved by the
@MHRAGovuk
, I'm delighted that it will be made in Teesside 🇬🇧
This vaccine shows how important global scientific collaboration is in delivering medical breakthroughs.
THANK YOU to all involved.
🚉Phase 2 of M'bro Station’s transformation has been unveiled
👏£34m scheme includes a new entrance, ticket hall and major repairs
🏗️A new office space to attract businesses and jobs
🥇Comes just days after Boro’s first
@LNER
train to London in 30yrs
The UK premiere of feature film Jackdaw happened right on our doorstep at the Showcase Cinemas UK, in Stockton, and it was beyond incredible! ✨
Jackdaw is now on public release in cinemas nationwide today. Showcase Cinemas Teesside Park is now on sale ➡️
First
@LNER
Azuma train has rolled into Middlesbrough
🚄Driver training ready for trains to London in December
🎅Just in time for some last min Christmas shopping
🚉£34m upgrade - platform 2 extended by 75m
Will you be using the new link to the capital?
Excellent opportunity for innovative
#TeesValley
businesses from all sectors and of all sizes!
#EntrepreneursoftheNorth
is a competition to find 30 northern businesses to head to London and pitch funding requirements to investors. Apply to be considered >
.
@TeesValleyMayor
agrees 30-year plan to transform the region’s transport infrastructure along with leaders from across the North, with
#TeesValley
transport priorities playing a key part of the strategy. Read more >
Trials on a leading COVID-19 vaccine are to be run at the University Hospital of Hartlepool🙌
If trials are successful, 60m doses will be manufactured at Billingham-based
@FujifilmDiosyn
, the only place in the UK where the vaccine will be produced👏
Plans for a NEW £35m medical building at
@TeessideUni
have been revealed 🧪🤩
The new science and medical centre will be part of the University’s School of Health and Life Sciences, providing cutting edge facilities for students👏
Find out more:
LATEST NEWS: Tees Valley Mayor
@BenHouchen
pushes the case for a £100million scheme to transform
#Darlington
station during a meeting this morning with Transport Secretary Chris Grayling. Read more about this story >
Congratulations to our very own Paul Booth, Chair of the Local Enterprise Partnership and Board member of the South Tees Development Corporation, awarded a CBE. This has been awarded for his services to Business and the Economy.
This award is very well deserved. Well done, Paul!
Great news for Tees Valley as Stockton and Darlington Railway wins heritage backing
@HistoricEngland
. A 'Heritage Action Zone' is a major step forward for preserving our rail heritage and demonstrates excellent partnership work. Read more >
Billingham-based Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies will become the only place in the country to manufacture 60million doses of the Novovax vaccine, should it be successful in its trials👏👇
😍 Welcome to Darlington
@tradegovuk
😎
💪 Another jobs boost today as a second top department will move some of its team to Darlington!
👩💼 👨💼 The Department for International Trade (DiT), hot on the heels of Treasury North, are moving hundreds of people to the Tees Valley