The Tees Valley Green Business Network is led by a range of local organisations with an interest in supporting businesses and encouraging improved environmental performance.

As the environment attracts more attention, as costs such as waste and energy rise and as major purchasers and the public scrutinise environmental credentials, it is increasingly important for businesses to look at their environmental performance.

The Tees Valley Green Business Network has been set up to help businesses find the information they need to take advantage of the commercial benefits that exist.

A GROUP of Teesside youngsters are on a high after being short-listed in a national community environmental competition - with the chance of a slice of the £1m prize-money.

A NEW Green Business Network is helping Tees firms reduce their impact on the environment, by making access to advice simpler and quicker.

A LUXURY hotel is offering a feather-bedded service to a new and different kind of guest.

A PILOT project to give practical one-stop energy saving advice to householders on Teesside has been so successful that the Government has given £100m for similar centres to be opened across the UK.

A TEESSIDE waste management company has added a top-of-the-range specialist tanker to its fleet to cope with the flood of new business generated by regulations that have, since October last year, baned liquid waste from landfill.

APPRENTICES from Hartlepool Power Station have built a new nuclear plant - one that´s five feet tall and is housed at Middlesbrough´s Nature´s World.

ANTI-CORROSION specialists ALM Group, which has a manufacturing base at Aycliffe and a coatings division at Fishburn, is going green with the help of The Carbon Trust.

TEES VALLEY businesses in the catering and hospitality sector – including pubs, hotels, restaurants and gyms – are being encouraged to cut costs by using less.