One of the North's leading drug manufacturers has launched a €22m (£16m) expansion into England.

A Co Armagh pharmaceutical firm is to create 229 jobs.

The economic gloom was lifted a little in the North today when a pharmaceutical company announced it was creating nearly 130 jobs.

A NORTHERN Ireland pharmaceutical company is to invest £50m (€70m) in a new North American headquarters facility based in south-east Pennsylvania.

NORTHERN Irish pharmaceutical company Almac has invested €71.6 million in a new North American headquarters in Pennsylvania.