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Wirral entrepreneur on hunt for more staff after £1.5m new seaside café success story

by Gareth Hughes
January 31, 2017

A Wirral-born food entrepreneur who created 50 new jobs by ploughing more than £1.5m into an seaside café has launched a recruitment drive for extra staff. Phil Brown, who built up the Philpotts bespoke sandwich empire from his first branch in Chester to 22 outlets across the UK,  has now launched the Sea Shanty Café in […]

Cosseted Christmas turkeys destined for top chefs’ tables thanks to delivery firm Delsol

by Gareth Hughes
December 15, 2016

Cosseted Christmas turkeys are winging their way to the tables of top restaurants thanks to delivery firm Delsol. The free-range birds are raised to the sounds of classical music and fed a home-grown grain mix at Lord Newborough’s organic Rhug Estate near Corwen. Every evening Rhug poultry manager Gareth Williams rounds up the turkeys and […]