Accountants KPMG, in Newcastle, has appointed DAVID STEVENS to its corporate finance team.

Mr Stevens joins having spent the past two years working in Edinburgh at Scottish firm Johnston Carmichael.

Rod Wilkinson, senior director of corporate finance at KPMG Newcastle, said: "We are looking forward to 2005 with a confident optimism.

"We intend to build on the successes we have already had to date and I am delighted to welcome David to the team."