Highs and lows start the north's economic week

Travel remains surprisingly buoyant but there's another blow for small-scale manufacturingThere's patchy economic news to start the week in the north. The good first: Liverpool's John Lennon airport had its busiest month ever in August.The traveller tally of 580,000 is the best since the same month in 2007 when just over 575,000 people used the airport, thanks largely to the low cost airlines easyJet and Ryanair.Bank Holiday alone saw 568 flights take 81,000 passengers with the rate reaching 110...

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