Tyne and Wear Lifestyle News (United Kingdom)

China has developed a five-year plan to turn Shanghai into an international financial hub, relying on a foreign recruitment drive to increase its financial sector workforce by 40 per cent.

Shortflatt Tower has been named in the Sunday Times Culture magazine as one of the best places to stay this Christmas. The exclusive Northumberland retreat, with its new on-site spa, Fullerton Place, is now taking bookings for breaks this Christmas.

Partners in Sublime - Fullerton Place and Natural Empathy have joined forces in a partnership that will bring Northumberland's very own Natural Empathy organic spa and beauty treatments to the new Northumberland spa.

Fullerton Place have joined forces with leading luxury British spa and skincare brand Elemis to provide their premium range of skincare and bodycare products to the new Northumberland spa which is set to open on November 3rd.

I Do Music are offering wedding entertainments acts low commission on all wedding entertainment bookings. Due to changes in their business model, I Do Music allow wedding entertainment acts "more for less" than larger, more traditional booking sites.

Wedding entertainment agency I DO Music is breaking new ground with over 200 acts available to book online. Described as a first for wedding couples, it's now possible to review and book over 200 acts without leaving the website.

Newcastle University student entrepreneurs are inline for this months Shell LiveWire award. The pair run Slotzz, a UK company which makes bespoke iPad and iPhone cases and a new idea has brought them to the forefront of this competition.

August Bank Holiday Monday live in Manchester for the final day of the Manchester Pride Big Weekend Festival for 2010. Featuring the candlelit vigil in Sackville Gardens.

Living overseas as an expatriate can be an expensive experience, especially when it comes to your healthcare requirements.

The Psychic who backed Newcastle United last season has a message for Toon fans ahead of the new season...you will NOT get relegated.

A determined bunch of Sunderland people recently completed a fitness boot camp that has seen every one of them gain impressive results!

On Thursday 5th August, the UK’s first coffee shop with Goats on the Roof - will open and this is no accident. Billy the Bagot Goat and his friends will be grazing on the turf roof while visitors graze in the coffee shop below.

For many people the music they listen to isn't really something they think very long or hard about, it's an impulse buy. That would seem to be the perfect way to approach music buying, gut instinct, however has your choice really been so free?

TGS, based in South Shields for over 23 years have recently launched a new web site:

The cost of medical treatment is rising all around the world and with real pressure on public finances, access to publically funded healthcare for expats – which always was limited – is becoming nigh on impossible.

Over recent years budget airlines and the once strong Pound have encouraged tens of thousands of Britons to buy second properties abroad, or simply decide a life in the sun is better than a life of congestion, taxes and traditional British weather.

The only North East Asian wedding specialist Shaadi Wedding Services is opening a factory in Newcastle upon Tyne to build wedding stages and furniture for the events. The opening will created six new jobs.

With the home energy bills rising year on year we all are looking for different methods to save money and improve the efficiency of the heating systems in our home, heatkeeper radiator panels are a proven method of increasing heating efficency.

Amanda Dixon of www.theconciergedirectory.net/newcastle is the Business Development Consultant for The Stables Lodge in Lamesley. In just 7 months The Stables Lodge has scooped 4 regional and National Awards.

Blushfashions announces record sales despite the current economic climate

Martin Ritter has launched a new ‘boutique’ range of Gig Bags. The Madarozzo™ boutique range is a premier collection of individually designed guitar and fretted instrument bags.

In the current economic climate, the increasing popularity of destination weddings, shows that couples and their families are now taking a closer look at wedding costs, and are discovering that a destination wedding ticks all the right boxes

UK number plate enthusiasts have a chance to own a real slice of motoring history as the combination AO 1 is put up for sale.

A DOUBLE-GLAZING firm has been bought out by senior management in a sanguine move that dispels some of the gloom surrounding a sector which has recently seen two high-profile casualties.