"the north-east of the UK"
Ahem: "the north-east of the UK" is Aberdeenshire or thereabouts, and possibly even further north.
However, that's not what the cited article actually says: it says "the North East", which, without any further clearly defined specification (now we know why many IT projects go wrong), is usually assumed to mean "northeast Englandshire" (and is usually written as one word, rather than two).
(Also, the "one in eight programmers/developers" statistic is in a new bullet point/paragraph and therefore is presumably a general data point applicable to the cohort as a whole, and not to the previous point relating to the Northeast.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
