Teesside Airport reports £6.6m loss despite Houchen claims of profit

Plus: PD Ports is up for sale

I hope you’ve had a great Christmas. Even if it’s not a good time of year for you, I hope at the very least everybody got some rest, it’s been an exhausting year.

It’s the seasonal hinterland of neither here nor there, but you can anchor yourself to today’s edition of The Teesside Lead, the 19th for those keeping score.

I joked in the last edition that I …