A NEW pirate ship playground at a refurbished Sale pub has scored highly with a team of young footballers. Members of Brooklands Dragons JFC had a ball when they helped unveil the £12,000 pirate ship-style play area at Jackson’s Boat Pub which was designed, manufactured and installed by family firm Creative Play. Pub manager Dionne […]
A leading timber company have answered an appeal from gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh to help transform the garden of a couple of Chester Good Samaritans for his new TV series. Love Your Home and Garden is a follow-up to Britain’s most popular gardening programme, Love Your Garden, and its first episode aired this month with […]
A motorsport fan has had a dream start to his career after being taken on by the firm which first recognised his potential as a work experience student aged 14. Danny Martin, now 20, has just celebrated recruitment into a full time post with the Leigh family firm, Astley Hire whose bosses have long been […]
Award-winning builder Anwyl Construction is in the running for affordable housing contracts across the North of England worth over a third of a billion pounds over the next four years. The Ewloe-based firm is on the list of approved builders for the JV North consortium of ten housing associations which has announced a £335 million, […]
A local businessman who started out over 40 years ago has created a soft furnishings empire that is now believed to be the UK’s largest independent fabric retailer. Peter Grimes’s chain of four Simon Boyd shops now includes Premiership footballers, the top five star London hotel, The Corinthia and the world famous Gleneagles Hotel and […]
An enterprising group of pupils who persuaded their Oldham primary school to provide better outdoor play facilities are celebrating a new playground. The youngsters, members of the school council at Fir Bank Primary School in Royton, helped to transform the school’s play area after appealing for an improved outdoor space for key stage two pupils. […]
A model flying enthusiast is reaching for the skies thanks to his new garden room, built using aviation technology. Adrian Hazeldine is using the new building at his Cheshire home as a workshop where he cares for his collection of remote controlled model planes – many of them replicas of military planes, with wingspans of […]
A diver has learned to walk again at a top Wirral private hospital after a life-threatening attack of the bends left him paralysed from the waist down. Now Steve Hallett has called at Spire Murrayfield Hospital to say thank you to the physiotherapy team who put him back on his feet. Steve, 52, from Ravenglass, […]
The North West construction industry faces a skills time bomb as an aging workforce heads towards retirement, a leading building industry figure has warned. Tom Anwyl, Director of The Anwyl Group, which has over £100 million of projects in the area, is concerned for the future of one of the region’s key economic sectors. Construction […]
A LITTLE boy with cerebral palsy met a vet who has helped raise money for the riding centre where he takes part in a horseback form of physiotherapy. The parents of five-year-old Maks Butrym, from Ewloe, were warned he may never walk after he developed the condition following his premature birth at just 25 weeks. […]
