Family firm Astley Hire is helping Olympic hopefuls reach new heights after donating a scissor lift to help build the GB Climbing Team’s first ever dedicated training wall. The Hub has just opened at the Rock Over Climbing centre in Manchester, which is the first of its kind in the UK, and will also be […]
A mum who was inspired to open a nursery after having a daughter through IVF is celebrating two years in business – and has taken on another five mums as staff. Haylea Osborne now employs 14 staff including five women whose children all go to her Fleximinder nursery which has just moved into a modern […]
WASTE wood left over from the creation of children’s playgrounds is being donated to a new wildlife charity project which aims to reach out to lonely older people and provide a vital training hub for young people. Chester-based family firm, Creative Play, which specialises in the design, manufacture and installation of top quality children’s playgrounds, […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
SCUBA divers from Southport Sub-Aqua Club celebrated half a century of underwater adventure with a special dive by one their founding members and 50 others. Southport SAC which is part of the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC), gathered fifty scuba divers – one for each year of their existence, to join 71-year-old Peter Markham on their […]
A LITTLE girl with cerebral palsy who doctors said would never walk is now able to “push her boundaries” at a new £30,000 nursery playground after having life-changing surgery in America. Ten-year-old Ria Stonehouse has overcome obstacles since she was born, and five years ago became the focus of a massive fundraising drive to send […]
A CHESTER firm helped celebrate the opening of a new playground which they built for the North Wales Rhug Estate of Lord Newborough. Lord Newborough asked a group of schoolchildren to be the first to test out the new £11,000 playground which was designed, manufactured and installed by Creative Play based on Sealand Road. The […]
A STUDENT veterinary nurse is in the running for an ‘Oscar’ of the animal world. Liam Grocott, of Alsager Vet Centre which is part of the independently-owned Willows Veterinary Group, is one of three finalists up for the Practice Support Staff of the Year accolade at the 2017 Petplan Veterinary Awards. Liam, 21, of Stoke […]
