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. […]
A HARTFORD animal hospital is undergoing a major redevelopment to create a new state-of-the-art facility for pets across Cheshire. The transformation of Willows Veterinary Hospital, run by the independently-owned Willows Veterinary Group, will add four new jobs to the existing 40-strong team and will invest in the latest veterinary technology and equipment. Head Vet Bruce […]
Award-winning comic Dave Rothnie has got them rolling in the aisles after setting up a regular comedy night at a venue dedicated to Monty Python star Terry Jones. Dave, who picked up the North West Comedian of the Year award while still a student in Salford, has performed alongside Peter Kay and Caroline Aherne. A financial […]
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 mum-of-three is opening a pioneering eco-friendly laundry service in Penwortham. Bubbly Alison Cannon is to launch Prima Master Dry Cleaners’ first ever franchise, following a £60,000 investment in a new shop fit out on Liverpool Road. The first of its kind in the town, the service will use state of the art ‘wet care’ […]
