Good morning and welcome to the Business Breakfast live blog for Monday, January 7. I’m Coreena Ford and I’m running the blog today. The business team’s live blog brings you all the breaking news from across the North East, the UK and beyond – basically anything and everything from the world of business. The first in a series of trading updates from supermarkets and big retailers to relay those all-important Christmas figures comes this morning, starting with Aldi which appears to have a brilliant festive season. We also have news from Dunelm and Hobbycraft and, as usual, I’ll include stories which you may have missed over the weekend Don’t forget to join our ChronicleLive business group on Facebook so you can get the latest news from our business team. And if you’d like to contribute tweet at to share your opinions, drop me a line at or tweet me at or call on 0191 2016331. Key Events Vertu Motors snap up online van retailer Vans Direct 08:46 Aldi rings up record Christmas sales of almost £1bn 08:33 9.12 Coreena Ford Record levels of concern among North East businesses on skills and staff costs Record levels of concerns… Read full this story
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