The financial problems of small airlines and fierce competition has damaged BAe's regional aircraft business. A further 550 jobs are to go at BAe's main military aircraft plant at Warton, Lancashire, and a similar number at Brough, Humberside.
Some growers in Lincolnshire and Humberside have seen up to 2.5 tonnes an acre while some others in Norfolk and Suffolk have been disappointed to achieve only 1.5 tonnes an acre.
John Fenton, an arable farmer in north Humberside, can pinpoint which parts of his 400-hectare holding make him the most money.
THE government gave the go-ahead yesterday for development of the Hyde gas field in the North Sea 40 miles east of Humberside.
Recovery still seems slower in north-west England, and the Yorkshire and Humberside regions.
The University of Hull, in Humberside is not shy about advertising its MBA programme.
Yorkshire and Humberside was among the regions most disappointed by the volume of orders received over the past four months compared with expectations in April.
It follows the opening of the Wolds remand prison, Humberside, last year.
Yorkshire and Humberside chambers attributed the stronger export trend to devaluation but warned that, given the slowdown in Germany, the region's largest export market, this may not last.
Mr John Gunnell, Labour MP for Leeds South and Morley, and chairman of Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association, says: 'Humberside has great economic significance for the region and the north.
Mr John Gunnell, Labour MP for Leeds South and Morley, and chairman of Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association, says: 'Humberside has great economic significance for the region and the north.
Humberside is unloved, with people preferring old county names, but more than 70 per cent are satisfied with its services and performance.
These are in addition to 29 conversions being carried out under a Pounds 170m contract which BAe signed in 1988. Most of the work will be carried out at BAe's Brough plant in Humberside, with final assembly at Dunsfold, near Guildford, Surrey.
In the interests of balance, I feel compelled to point out that Cleveland is a rare example of a county with thin popular identity, in that it is an artificial construction, like Avon or Humberside.
Teesside Holdings, a consortium formed by Humberside Holdings, 3i and Powell Duffryn, acquired the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority for Pounds 180m in 1992.