In wishing our readers a very merry Christmas Insider reflects on a frantic year across the North West. We also feature reports from three of our recent events in Manchester, Liverpool and Penrith. We also include an interview with Philip Green, the chief executive of United Utilities.
The nuclear industry - the Green pilgrim's great Satan - is coming in from the cold, and where better to welcome back the mighty atom than its spiritual home in West Cumbria? David Chadwick reports
It was the year the Peel empire seemed to take over the world, or at least the North West. Neil Tague charts the dizzying highs and stomach-churning lows of the year in business
United Utilities is going to be Philip Green's last executive job. He isn't about to name the date, less than a year into the role. But his mission is to make a good company great. Michael Taylor reports