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Sir Roger Carr, president of the CBI and Gavin Esler, best known for his role as a presenter on BBC Newsnight, have been confirmed as the guest speakers at one of the region’s leading business SCUNTHORPE’S £1.3 billion turnover wholesale gatherings later this year. giant a resurgent set of annual results this The posted CBI Yorkshire and Humber Annual Dinner past month. takes place at Leeds University on October 10. Inside, report onfirst howevents Nisa Retail chief It will bewe one of the with John executive Nick sees convenience Fitzgerald, port Read director forthe Grimsby and sector mapping out,as understand why town’s Immingham, chairman of thethe region. distribution is the “jewel television in the crown” Mr Esler iscentre an award-winning and and radio hear how ownnovelist brand Heritage is proving its worth. broadcaster, and journalist. Full details, see page nine. His latest book, due to hit the shelves next month, focuses on lessons that can be gleaned from leaders in how they tell stories, and will be the subject of his speech to the area’s business bosses, and their guests. For more information about the dinner, which is frequently well represented by the South Bank and features a drinks reception within Parkinson Court, home to the famous Marks & Spencer archive and art gallery, e-mail katya.menhennet@cbi.org.uk or visit http://yorkshire-annual-dinner.eventbrite.com

£20m milestone passed further increases has now been put employed, handling 120,000 tonnes Park on Grimsby’s flagship in place. Europarc development, will be of potatoes a year. Of that, 35,000 officially opened this week by tonnes are self-grown, with a “We have taken two years to get Agriculture and Horticulture to this,” said Mr Arundel. “We got growing group in this region and Development Board chairman around another site in Suffolk, the grant funding for storage and John Godfrey CBE, himself a contributing the balance. grading operations in 2009, and North Lincolnshire farmer. built the storage throughout 2010, Recently 15 employees were to be open for that harvest. We Mr Arundel added: “We’re added, with three graduate have had potatoes in from 2010 and trainees also part of the company, looking forward to opening the 2011, and the whole project has new cold store and grading facility specialising in growing, logistics been finished with the offices just the uncharacteristic weather technical including PROGRESS: Above, how one of the and Modal Training elements, suites will look. Left, Sue–Chapman, right Patrick Henry, and now.centre, work at the wheel is a huge focus. conditions have brought us a agronomy. The remaining challenging year, but the opening investment has seen a fleet of six “Our desire is to have more Mercedes rigs brought in to deliver event is just rewards for everyone’s quality potato producers local to haswork. also provided consultancy year, will deliver trainingwith for the moving towould the new the potatoes to customers, the hard this site. It cutcentre. down on digital age, using sophisticated services the British “Sue’s appointment is still a real primary route Morrisons’ packing transport costs. There is a lot “The newfor facility will not only simulation software to recreate International Freight Association, for us,itand expertise and operations near Harrogate. ofcoup potential, willher help the enable us to meet the demand of complex operations in a and headed up the Authorised experience in footprint the industry environmental andwill thisbe our biggest customers, but we’ve Keen to cultivate a prosperous Economic Operator project at controlled environment. incredibly beneficial,” said Mr part of the world has the ability to future for Lincolnshire potato also successfully improved the high street-serving Henry . “We delighted to have Sue spent 10 years ft asstorage sea freight quality grow some of’re the best potatoes in and freshnesslogistics of our and farmers, the 32,000sq distribution giant Advanced her on board.” the country, that is what we are manager Kuehne & Nagel, potatoes by reducing facility andfor 4,000 sq ft two storey Supply Chain.handling and using majoring on.” Forwarding afterdevelopment working as an account The Freight transportation, office – which drew manager for P&O Nedlloyd. She ● latest Continued page 23.. Academy, launching later this the cold on store technologies.” inspiration from Genesis Office A total of 44 people are now

A FURTHER £4-million of investment across the region this last quarter has seen the total funds issued by Finance Yorkshire climb to £23-million. The money, available to firms in northern Lincolnshire in seedcorn, loan and equity linked investments – ranging from £15,000 to £2-million – is there to help small and medium sized businesses meet their growth and development requirements. The figure amounts to 224 investments in 183 small and medium sized enterprises since August 2010, leading to more than 4,600 jobs created and safeguarded in the region. In the last quarter alone, the venture capital and loan fund completed 30 investments totalling more than £4.3 million. Alex McWhirter, chief executive of Finance Yorkshire, said: “We are looking forward to building on these figures and helping more companies achieve growth in the coming months. “We urge established and early stage companies to continue to speak to us to see if Finance Yorkshire can help turn their ambitions into a reality.” Supported by the European Union, it has attracted £30-million investment from the European Regional Development Fund, £15-million from Yorkshire Forward’s Single Programme, and £45-million match funding from the European Investment Bank. For information visit www.finance-yorkshire.com

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RITISH Steel has signed a landmark contract with the Materials Processing Institute to ensure innovative research and development in vital rail and construction markets. The five year agreement comes a month after the business was renamed by new owner Greybull Capital, having completed the purchase of Tata Steel Long Products on June 1. Teesside-based MPI is an inter nationally-respected not-for-profit company, which works with industrial innovators to conduct research for the rail, materials, process and energy sectors. It also continues to make specialist steel at its Normanton facility. The new contract with British Steel will see MPI provide research and innovation to support improvements in productivity and performance. John Dale, British Steel’s technical director, said: “After recent uncertainty, the future looks increasingly bright for British Steel. “The collaboration we have agreed with MPI, a key strategic partner for steel and materials innovation in the UK, will support the continued development of our products and productivity, keeping UK

LONG TERM COMMITMENT: John Dale, left, shakes on the five year contract with Richard Curry, operations development manager at MPI, as Gari Harris, R&D manager at British Steel, looks on. steel manufacturing at the forefront of the international market.” A new product for the rail industry, Zinoco, has already been launched under the British Steel brand, and in an exclusive interview with the Business Telegraph last month, commercial director Peter

executive, said: “We are pleased to see the return of the British Steel brand to the UK. After what has been a difficult year for the industry, we can see opportunity and confidence for investors in UK steel manufacturing. “The Materials Processing Institute has a long track record in developing technology and world leading expertise. We look forward to using this knowledge to support the development of innovative processes at British Steel which will ensure it remains a profitable concern, producing high-quality steel.” MPI is an open-access technology centre serving organisations that work with materials, materials processing or energy. It provides a range of technology and R&D-based services and consultancy. It also has pilot and demonstration facilities and a John Dale SME Technology Centre to support supply chain Hogg told how a huge focus was businesses with the development of new being put on the steel giant’s technologies and products. strengths. In the past month British He also told how it wanted to Steel has permanently taken on play a leading role in the 80 highly-skilled contractors, regional economy as it and signed a major partnership explained how the £400 million deal with Scunthorpe United to investment package would be supply the steel for the new used. stadium construction, with shirt sponsorship. Chris McDonald, MPI chief

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‘A bright future for renewables, and one which we must ensure is talked about’ NEW chief executive of RenewableUK, Hugh McNeal, has told how offshore wind is leading a new infrastructure revolution, with Britain at the forefront of a global industry. David Laister reports.

N HIS maiden speech to an industry he now represents in the corridors of power he once graced as a senior civil servant, there was clear passion, optimism and confidence.

Hugh McNeal who heads up the leading trade body, used the Global Offshore Wind conference in Manchester this past month to get his message across loud and clear. Despite European uncertainty, the political change it has brought – including now the disbanding of the Department for Energy and Climate Change that was once until March his employer – he is adamant “our future is bright, the global opportunities are immense”, They were words greeted warmly by an industry that has matured quickly. He said: “Since starting just under three months ago, I have been making the case that renewables are now part of a new energy mainstream here in Britain and around the world; securing investment that is delivering transformative and revolutionary change and driving a revitalisation of our energy infrastructure. “More than half of global energy investment last year was in renewables, a third of that investment in China. For the first time last year, we witnessed more renewable than non-renewable capacity deployed across the globe; and for our offshore wind industry a market worth a record $23 billion, from its origins here in Britain, then in Denmark and

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MAIDEN SPEECH: Hugh McNeal, chief executive of RenewableUK, speaking at Global Offshore Wind 2016 in Manchester. He went on to tell how he played a role in helping facilitate Government assistance in securing the Siemens investment in Hull. With the first blades about to go into production in September, and destined for a Grimsby-operated farm in Race Bank, Mr NcNeal said: “It really is fantastic to see it. I

The scale of what is being achieved, the scale of some of the transformation and the economic regeneration in parts of the country, in Grimsby, in Hull, is incredible, and it was so desperately needed. Jobs are there now that just weren’t. The story needs to be told Hugh McNeal was involved, and have been in and out of Hull, since 2010, through to 2012. “The Humber is a hub, people are going out (to wind farms) every day. Operations and maintenance is a vital part. People don’t realise, even onshore, but it is 50 to 70 per cent the investment in the lifetime of a wind farm,

and that is a lot.” In his speech he touched on his visit to Team Humber Marine Alliance’s Offshore Wind Connections event, at which Great Grimsby MP Melanie Onn and Dong Energy’s Jason Ledden spoke. He told hundreds of delegates: “A few weeks ago I spent an evening in Bridlington meeting 100 or so companies working in offshore wind; companies installing winch systems and other specialist equipment, supplying boats and jack-up vessels; companies training people to work at sea; companies that analyse the sea bed; professional services firms providing legal and financial advice; companies that work in the digital economy, software providers; firms providing economic modelling; even a former Asda store manager whose father had invested in his business filming the building at the Siemens site and who now has a successful digital media business. “What strikes me more and more in this role, and as I think about these stories, your stories, is the reach – both geographic and economic – in what we are achieving. We are not a sector – well not in any narrow sense of that word. We touch on almost all areas of economic activity, and we increasingly reach all parts of this country. Offshore wind is already a massive British success story. “Less than a decade ago I met a young British company setting up in offshore wind before any of the deployment that has marked our success in recent years. Its founders saw the potential of boat services and marine operations in that market. Last month in Bridlington, I had the pleasure of meeting up with them again, no longer a start-up but part of a global marine company worth over £100 million, a leading light in the offshore wind industry and now one

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Conference call: Just days left to save a seat GRIMSBY Renewables Partnership’s second annual conference is just days away. The event will take place in the main hall at Grimsby Institute, on Thursday, July 28, with just a few tickets remaining. For those who cannot make it, Humberbusiness.com will report live, with the Telegraph’s dedicated business website the official media partner. Roger Smith, chairman of Grimsby Renewables Partnership said: “A year ago we gathered together in Grimsby’s Town Hall to officially launch the partnership. That day was not the start of the partnership, we have been working hard over the last 10 years to raise awareness of renewables in the Grimsby area, particularly in offshore wind.” Looking forward to the event, and urging attendees to browse the exhibition stands as well as listen to the speakers, he said: “This year’s platinum slot has kindly been taken by Triton Knoll and I look forward to hearing their plans for the huge offshore wind farm and how the area can benefit from the expected 2,000 construction jobs and the 300 operational jobs that investment will bring. “We are located in an amazing location with regard to the operations and maintenance of the fastest growing companies anywhere in Britain. “You will all have stories like these; stories of success that deserve to be told, and to be heard. Stories of how British leadership and international co-operation and investment is delivering economic opportunity and jobs at the most local levels; of a market born in British waters expanding across the world with all of the opportunity this expansion brings – not narrow conversations about our gigawatts or the amount of British content in our projects but British based companies working with and alongside international companies delivering successfully all over the world. As in the 1800s, our future success will not be achieved in isolation but in partnership with international companies who recognise British skills and strengths and complement them with their own, who recognise, as William Siemens did

Month in Review Devolution won’t dilute estuary economy growth

POLITICS: Devolution will not detract from the Humber’s Energy Estuary surge, a critical ports focus or Northern Powerhouse push, businesses in northern Lincolnshire have been assured. As the case was made for greater powers for Greater Lincolnshire, key figures driving the agenda outlined their take on the potential, and the fact that ‘business operates without borders’. Baroness Liz Redfern, leader of North Lincolnshire Council, was joined by Councillor Peter Wheatley of North East Lincolnshire Council, as well as Ursula Lidbetter MBE, chair of the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership, together with business representatives David Clugston (Clugston Group) and Mark Webb (E-Factor) for a Big Debate. Devolution will see spending powers on crucial provisions such as transport, housing and adult education transferred from Westminster, with a £15 million annual kitty seen as a starting point to draw in further funds.

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requirements for the offshore wind market. The market is growing and Grimsby Renewables Partnership will grow with it.” North East Lincolnshire Council leader, Councillor

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over 170 years ago, that Britain “is the place if anything is to be done. “Now more than anything it is my job, your job, OUR job to tell the stories of our success; to speak locally, to speak nationally, to speak globally of what we are achieving and what we offer, of the possibilities that are now opening up because of British leadership as our market becomes increasingly global. To tell the stories that reach back to a historic past but open up a truly global future for us all. A new infrastructure revolution is being led by you. Now is the time to show what that means and what it offers.” Before Mr McNeal spoke, Julian Brown, RenewableUK chairman, told how it was a big

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task finding a successor to Maria McCaffery, who had led the organisation for the formative first decade. He said: “Hugh stood out in this process in an impressive group of peers, and not just for his career and deep interest. “He has a razor sharp intellect, that’s a given, but one of things I never got from him as a civil servant but did in droves in the process was how truly held his values are and the clarity of vision he has in what we as an industry can do the most to maximise deployment. I am already enjoying working with him and look forward to working with him for a long time to come.”

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OFFSHORE WIND: Dong Energy’s latest offshore wind farm development, the 580MW Race Bank, has passed a key construction milestone. The first of the 91 turbine monopile foundations was installed, a first above-water element of the project. Installation will continue into 2017, with the huge export cable, linking the farm to the National Grid, currently being laid under the sea, from Walpole, through The Wash.

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TECHNOLOGY: A Scunthorpe business has been acquired by technology giant Panasonic. Alan Dick Communications, which trades as ADComms, specialises in rail and mobile telecoms and is based on the Normanby Enterprise Park. Under the new deal, it will remain as a standalone business but will form part of the Panasonic Business group in its system solutions division. The move will allow Panasonic to expand into the growing rail market, while also bringing benefits for the Scunthorpe firm.

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Month in Review Percy takes powerhouse brief in PM’s reshuffle POLITICS: BRIGG and Goole MP Andrew Percy is to pick up the Northern Powerhouse brief, after he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government. Elected in 2010, he will form part of Secretary of State Sajid Javid’s team in Whitehall. He moved from business to DCLG as one of new Prime Minister Theresa May’s high profile reshuffles. Greg Clark has been appointed Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The Humber’s role in the Northern Powerhouse is seen as crucial, as the M62 linking Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and the east coast forms a strategic trade corridor between the US and Europe.

Trampoline park plan LEISURE: A £250,000 indoor trampoline park for adults and children could see 40 jobs creation in Scunthorpe. Planning permission is being sought for the Air Kings Scunthorpe trampoline park on Atkinson Way on the Foxhills Industrial Estate. If given the go-ahead, owners hope the park will be open by late September or early October. Indoor trampoline parks have proved very popular with adults in recent years as a way of keeping fit. Workers even use them during their lunch break. The proposal will see 40 per cent of the park covered in trampolines – including the walls. There will also be a mezzanine floor with a cafe.

SEAGULL’S VIEW: The ongoing £1.8 million slipway project at Port of Grimsby East, with new finger piers for the boat hoist emerging. Below, Roger Smith.

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NTEREST in Port of Grimsby East remains strong, with new facilities coming online soon helping to further inward investment, the town’s offshore wind stakeholders have been told.

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Fresh from marketing the Humber’s first port of call at Seawork International, the maritime industry’s major exhibition, chairman of Grimsby Renewables Partnership, Roger Smith, presented to the regular members’ gathering. Within a month the £1.8 million overhaul of the vital slipway maintenance facilities will reach a key point, as it welcomes a huge boat hoist, opening up vital repair and maintenance opportunities. It was the focus of the organisation’s activity at the Southampton show. Mr Smith, marine operations manager at the port, said: “This is providing opportunities for engine manufacturers and engineers to locate to this area. At Seawork International we had a very good response from engineering companies, electrical companies and engine manufacturers about what we are doing in Grimsby. “I would say we are now in the same position as we were back in the Fifties with fishing. The industry is showing very clear development and Grimsby is getting the recognition as it did then as a worldwide port.” The slipways project is the latest significant spend, following on from major port investments in pontoons, lock gates, office provision and marine bunkering capability. “How it has developed in the last eight years has been tremendous, and we are working to keep it moving on and moving up,” Mr Smith said. “We have Race Bank being built out there now, there is the potential for Triton Knoll to work from this area, and then there is the potential for some of the Round Three projects to work from Grimsby and the surrounding area as well.” Race Bank is Dong Energy’s second offshore wind farm to be built out of Grimsby. It features 91 turbines and will have a capacity of 580MW. Triton Knoll, from RWE and Statkraft, could feature up to 288 turbines with 900MW the ambition. “We are set up as an operations and maintenance base, we are not going to be able to build turbines here, but for O&M we have done a really good job,” Mr Smith said. “Geographically, once in our lifetime we are in the right position when it comes to access for vessels. RES (a company that advised The Crown Estate in the early days of offshore

RELATIVE NEWCOMERS: E.on and Dong Energy’s bases in Port of Grimsby East. wind exploration) actually did a report that said this was the best place to be for vessels, and that was good for us.” Mr Smith is employed by Grimsby Fish Dock Enterprises. “When it was formed in 1992, there weren’t many fishing boats in the port, and certainly weren’t any offshore wind boats there,” he said. “Our introduction to the industry was Associated British Ports bringing along two guys, saying ‘can you deal with them, they have a couple of boats they want to moor in Grimsby, and we can’t cope with them’. “It turned out to be Centrica and Siemens. We developed a very good relationship with both and on the back of this developed a 25-year deal with Centrica, and again with E.on and Dong Energy. “It just shows from humble beginnings how we have developed a significant business, not just for us, but for the town. We realised we needed to involve the local community and get people involved from our area.” The birth of Grimsby Renewables Partnership followed, with the ‘christening’ last year, with an official launch at Grimsby Town Hall. Next week a second annual conference takes place, at Grimsby Institute, with Triton Knoll project director James Cotter as keynote speaker. Charting the dock’s development, Mr

Smith said: “We formed Port of Grimsby East eight years ago when we first started going to the major exhibitions. Grimsby Fish Docks didn’t come across very well, and we wanted a trading name that reflected how our business was developing. One of the first physical changes was the addition of a sloped pontoon, developed to allow technicians to ‘walk to work’ rather than use ladders to access vessels. “That happened in Grimsby, it was from a designer we used, and has now been copied in various ports around the country,” Mr Smith said. “Something as simple as that was a £200,000 investment, and a lot of money to a company like ours.” In total £500,000 was invested to secure Centrica. “It shows you have to invest, you have to speculate to accumulate,” he said. Since then the port has welcomed survey vessels, and others carrying out met mast work, crew transfer, support and standby, as well as tugs. Royal Dock has seen floating hotels dive vessels, and cable layers. “Potentially we could see jack-up vessels using the Humber too,” Mr Smith said, adding: “Last year we had 35 vessels operating out of the port. There is clearly a lot happening.”

INVEST EARLY: Far left, the sloped berthing jetty is admired by George Campbell, of Centrica, and GFDE chief executive Martyn Boyers. Right, Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farm, the first to be operated out of Grimsby.

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£500,000 investment is setting up a South Bank business to play a leading role in helping pharmaceutical companies comply with strict new traceability legislation. The clock is ticking for drug manufacturers to ensure they operate under the Falsified Medicines Directive, and Barton’s high tech vision inspection specialist Olmec has teamed up with one of the world’s leading printing companies to provide a solution. It is seen as a game-changing development for the business, which has doubled in size to 22 as the project has been developed over the past two years, with considerable further growth anticipated as the deadline approaches. Working in a consortium led by Domino Printing Sciences, part of the giant Brother Group, orders have now been received for the SerialTrac system. It has been devised so it can rapidly apply scannable codes and text to cartons, while linking databases and sharing the information at critical points in the supply chain. Robert Pounder, director, said: “We started this project more than two years ago, and EU legislation came into being in January. Now all manufacturers have to comply by 2019. It is legislation that is global, with EU-FMD, US-FDA, China, Korea etc. If you don’t comply you are

‘It is a game-changer’ WHILE the SerialTrac project harbours much excitement and growth potential, the vision systems that provide vital quality control across food and pharma sectors remain key to the daily success of the business. Having made a name for bespoke solutions for clients around the globe, an off the shelf system has now been devised to offer manufacturers a “low cost application”. It is then backed up with support at a level decided upon by the client. Three-dimensional imaging has become a big part of the business too, and a business development manager was recruited a year ago, with results now being seen. “He has close to 20 years machine vision experience working with global machine

We are now seeing the first orders coming in, and we are expecting a big roll out by the end of 2017, early 2018

vision suppliers,” Mrs Pounder said. The combination of activity, together with machine build contracts for multiple vision systems within the medical sector, makes for a buoyant time. “SerialTrac is such an investment going forward, and with the length of the project we had to make sure we could fund its development, while controlling the day-to-day business. “It has taken a lot of careful management to make sure we have not over-reached. We have reinvested to cover off future growth requirements, to make sure we have our position in the market. We are now competing on a new level, it is a game-changer. It has been for us and will be for the industry.”

Robert Pounder simply not allowed to sell products in to these markets any more. “For our target market this is a big change and one which permanently alters their relationship with machine vision. It is game-changing for both manufacturers and suppliers alike, and it is not something you can look at and say ‘let’s do this tomorrow’. “For a producer it is a huge investment to comply with, especially if you are a manufacturer with 10 or 20 lines. It needs to be in, tested and proven, and it has to be ready and running. We are now seeing the first orders coming in, and we are expecting a big roll out by the end of 2017, early 2018.” Together with wife and fellow director Fiona Pounder, they have built on a previous relationship with the lead partner as the technology is harnessed from the tobacco industry. Now it is public health rather than excise duty that is at the core of the legislation. A six strong software team at the Falkland Way base is complemented by a manufacturing team, who work closely with designers, and project partners. The end result is a system that can be integrated into existing production lines, creating a 2D data matrix, with four to five lines of human readable text, and a unique serial number, capable of handling 300 parts per minute, or five a second, while also checking batches for duplication, grading and code as a quality assurance addition.

FIRST IN LINE: Robert Pounder with an early SerialTrac system at Olmec, Barton. Above, an example of the unique serialisation it is capable of. Domino pulled a team together, with Olmec tasked with working on domestic projects. “There is an expectation that in time this will move on from pharmaceutical to food and cosmetics,” Mr Pounder said. “As this technology matures it will reduce in price and complexity and it will move forward. We have plotted our expansion for that, and built up a team.” A successful Regional Growth Fund grant has helped support research and development as the consortium work advanced, with profits ploughed back into the business by the directors as well as CNC manufacturing equipment and CAM software Mr and Mrs Pounder bought out their founding partners in October 2014, having previously identified a manufacturing niche and launching Olmec in 2007. A focus is now on support level agreements for customers, with high value production runs a dominant feature of the market. That in itself could see further employment with teams operating remotely. “It is all about how far and how big this now goes,” enthused Mr Pounder. A

need for a large quantity of machines has already been identified in the domestic marketplace, and a share of this market is our target. “We are happy to service a small percentage of the market and work with the small and medium-sized manufacturers who cannot solve this in-house,” Mr Pounder said. “We started work less than three years ago, some of the industry leading pharmaceuticals have had full teams on it, then there are companies who haven’t even thought about it, as they don’t have the time to.” Mrs Pounder’s horizon scanning had alerted them to it. “Fiona wrote a business case and identified how we make sure our business sees what trends are in the future,” Mr Pounder said. “There were clear synergies with Domino and they are expecting huge growth in this market, we just had to make sure we were able to respond. “If we were not part of serialisation the future would look very different, integrating code readers which link to these databases could become a blocker to entering the market if you don’t have the technology.”

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Seen as an evolving public health threat, with the “horsemeat” scandal and fish species misrepresentation two recent examples, it has shot up the industry agenda. Now the knowledge required to combat the issue is being drawn together in Europe’s Food Town. Mathew Thompson, Grimsby Institute’s senior consultant for the sector, said: “Food fraud has a long history and with 21st century technology it can be increasingly scary. “There is a raised profile when illegal economic gain, sabotage or extortion, can endanger the health of those buying and eating food. “Combatting food fraud requires a forensic understanding of the components of the product itself and of the journey it took to end up on the plate. Marrying these concepts together is vital to ensure the correct approaches, test methods, research and analysis are used to ensure that food is exactly how it is described.” Mr Thompson and the team at Grimsby Institute are working alongside Mike Mitchell, former Young’s Seafood technical director, who now runs his own consultancy business Fair Seas Ltd, to develop a programme. This was a subject he presented on at World Seafood Congress 2015, an event held at the Nuns Corner campus last September. The latest version of the British Retail Consortium’s Global Standard for Food Safety, includes vulnerability assessment as one tool for evaluating the challenges the sector faces through food fraud and authenticity. Mr Thompson said: “Here at the Grimsby Institute we are designing

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MAKING SURE: Mat Thompson and the team at Grimsby Institute are looking to ensure the food chain in equipped to deal with any threat. tools to help conduct a vulnerability assessment; to think about how the chain can be attacked, whether by extortionist or saboteur, to indicate weakness in the chain and find the ways in which the food chain may be deliberately compromised.” He said those working in the sector who would benefit from being involved are primarily the food safety and technical teams, though he stressed staff throughout the organisation need to be included, from the site security teams and commercial business functions; production, manufacturing, HR, finance, procurement and marketing and cyber security. Aligned to industry standards,

including PAS96:2014 Guide, the programme in development aims to: ● Understand food forensics in the supply chain ● Describe the background of Vulnerability Assessment ● Develop the ability to mitigate potential threats ● Provide support on crisis management in the food chain Mr Thompson said: “The ability to identify and address potential vulnerabilities identified by the assessment process are essential. This closes weak spots in an organisation’s operational due diligence defence. “Effective traceability management with sound crisis and product recall management are

essential tools for today’s food sector. Well managed and prepared plans are vital for mitigating vulnerabilities and ensuring effective control systems and management of a crisis event.” Sessions are now being planned by the team to share experiences and encourage debate around the topics through delegate participation. “This is not designed to be a chemistry lesson, but as a means to highlight the suite of tests available to food manufacturers to combat food fraud and to give a working knowledge of a number of disciplines required to understand threats in cyber-security, logistics and production, as well as food technical,” Mr Thompson added.

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partners. Stuart Caborn, chief supply chain and procurement officer at Young’s, said: “Our mission is to inspire people to love fish now and for generations to come, and to achieve this innovation is absolutely key. “This conference was a great opportunity to bring our suppliers together to

Savings have been reinvested into innovation, which retailer customers and shoppers will benefit from when the new products become available in store. One example has been the Young’s partnership with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute to promote fish fingers with a FOCUS: free swim offer on pack. Stuart Caborn, chief Several suppliers have supply chain seen an increase in and turnover since engaging procurement with the strategy, with at officer at least one supplier recording Young’s a 60 per cent rise in sales Seafood. driven by innovation and new product development. work on innovative new conference have been a During the conference projects. major success for Young’s Young’s gave a special “I believe that those in the Seafood, our supply chain room have the power and partners, our customers and award to packaging supplier DS Smith for going the ability to shape the future of shoppers, and have helped extra mile in being an early the UK seafood market, us reinvest in ground adopter of virtual bringing together the very breaking innovation. Now integration. best elements of the supply more of our leading Suppliers travelled from chain – the very essence of suppliers are getting on Canada, the USA, China, our virtual integration board and we are very model. The projects we have excited about the next phase Norway, Iceland, Vietnam, Japan and Indonesia. worked on since our last of our journey.”

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ISA chief executive Nick Read has described the past 12 months as a “transformational year” for the northern Lincolnshire wholesale giant.

the wider membership.” The former Vodafone executive’s first annual review told how in the wake of the losses the new management team inherited in early 2015, the group embarked on a strategic review. It Delivering his first full year’s completed in March 2016 and has been accounts at the helm of the £1.3 billion helpful in confirming that “while there Scunthorpe retail operation, a return is much to do to continue transforming to a modest £600,000 profit was flagged, the business, Nisa is now on a more having lost £5.4 million last year. stable footing”. As reported, it was a huge recovery The review also considered where the following the loss of a critical refinement of key services within the partnership with store group business could further strengthen the Costcutter. company and position it for future Mr Read, pictured below, said: “This growth, and this is a key focus for the has been a transformational year for business going forward. Nisa; the measures we have taken in Looking outside the Waldo Way base, stabilising the business have put it on where nearly 300 people are directly a firm footing for future success in employed, and a further 800 in the financial year 2017 and beyond. DHL-managed neighbouring central “The company was pleased to achieve distribution centre, Mr Read said: year end adjusted earnings of £7.3 “Retailing continues to see significant million, the biggest annual swing in changes and evolution; for Nisa these profit in Nisa’s 39 year history. have been largely driven by the “It has been an extremely busy continued growth of online models and period, and during the course of the the success of discounters. I see great year the business has secured an potential for the convenience sector to extension to its banking facilities, benefit, and the next few years will be reduced central overheads by 12.3 per a crucial time for Nisa and its peers. cent, addressed loss making accounts, “As the market evolves, consumers recruited substantial commercial increasingly see the convenience contracts, and, excluding Costcutter, sector as a destination shop rather reversed the downward trend in total than just for top up, and so the sales, all of which delivered benefits to importance of having a strong chilled and fresh range becomes ever more critical. Our consumers are increasingly seeking good quality

produce and we are supporting this growing demand through our award-winning own label brand, Heritage. “Elsewhere, a squeeze on disposable income, which has also driven footfall to convenience stores in an attempt to control spend with smaller, more frequent visits, has also raised the importance of a strong and competitive own label range.” Heritage saw its fresh meat sales increase 41.2 per cent, with ready meals jumping 48.1 per cent and wet salads up 62.5 per cent. Store membership was up by 476 to reach a total of 2,915. “This is testament to the faith retailers place in the long term future of Nisa’s business model and its unrivalled offer, which makes Nisa the partner of choice for independent retailers,” Mr Read said. The distribution service, described by him as “the jewel in its crown” saw stock availability – with a range of 13,000 products – come in at 97.5 per cent, while also beating a distribution cost per case target. Delivery on day was 99.9 per cent, with delivery on time at 95 per cent. Order picking within the huge warehouse was 99.9 per cent accurate “which is a tremendous achievement and highlights the strength of our distribution effectiveness,” Mr Read said.

Strong start to 2017 albeit with caution A FAST start to quarter one has been plotted, with enhanced promotions to members. Two Bank Holiday “bonanzas” and Black Friday-style promotions launched in May generated more than £1 million of additional sales. Mr Read said weekly sales are tracking ahead of budget, and 3.5 per cent ahead of where Nisa was year-on-year. However, a note of caution was sounded, with

the My Local brand, a convenience chain bought by Greybull Capital – the investor behind British Steel – entering administration. “With so much to be positive about in quarter one it was regrettable,” Mr Read said of the newer member for the wholesaler. “This was anticipated and no material loss is expected to arise.” Mr Read’s predecessor at Nisa, Neil Turton, was

trading and marketing director. As reported in November’s Business Telegraph, Morrisons’ convenience portfolio of 130 stores had been purchased, and they were launched in days, with Nisa bringing in additional supply chain resource to meet the colossal increase in orders and deliveries, which equalled 800 drops in a five day stock-building period.

‘TRANSFORMATIONAL YEAR’: Nisa Retail's mock-up shop showcasing the Heritage range at the company's annual exhibition. It was the first time the full range was put on display.

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SIGNED AND SEALED: Director Pete Harvey congratulates Nikki Hale on her promotion.

Training role lifts Nikki’s career to a whole new level A

NEW era is being embraced at BJB Lift Trucks as Nikki Hale becomes training and marketing manager.

Pete Harvey, director, said: “It is exciting times here and this is a fresh focus for BJB. Nikki knows the business very well and we see this is as the start of a new era as we move forward. Having first joined the Grimsby Training is an important part of company in 2010, she spent a year the business, yet it has been one of at HCF Catch, the beacon training our biggest secrets. facility at Stallingborough, before “We are now looking at building re-joining as the materials on the team behind her.” handling specialist embarked on a The company specialises in significant expansion. materials handling and powered Now following some recent staff access training, and Mrs Hales’ changes she is to head up the remit covers both external and important division, where internal requirements at the Estate Road One centre. significant investment has been seen as part of a move to the South BJB’s existing team of Humberside Industrial Estate instructors has also been strengthened, as the business base.

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LEARNING CURVE: Apprentice engineer Tim Flowers with Nikki Hale in the dedicated training facility at the South Humberside Industrial Estate base.

enters the application process to become an International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) training centre. A new instructor, who is already IPAF accredited, is also trained to provide portable access scaffolding training. Mrs Hale said: “As a company we have always wanted to move forward, and following some recent staff changes this has been handed to me to take forward. “I have worked with the department for four years when I first joined BJB, so I had a good grounding in what goes on, but it is still quite a learning curve and a busy time for us. “My time at HCF Catch also gave me the experience of meeting training needs for a lot of different sectors.” There has been early success in the role too, as Mrs Hale herself prepares to take the basic fork lift truck courses to gain a full understanding. “We have already brought a couple of new clients on board,” she said. BJB is looking forward to being part of IMHX, the international materials handling exhibition, taking place at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre, from September 13. Tens of thousands of people attend the four-day event, held once every three years, and it is the first time BJB will have attended as exhibitors, in one of the five huge halls. Mr Harvey and Mrs Hale will be part of the TCM dealer network, the recent rebrand from Nissan. “We are looking forward to it,” said Mrs Hale. “It is another good opportunity to promote all aspects of our one-stop shop offer to industry. There are not many other dealers in the network that offer the full package like we do.”

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OTAL Lindsey Oil Refinery has entered the second half of its huge turnaround and inspection project, with bosses delighted with the progress, and accompanying safety record.

DIALOGUE: Lindsey Oil Refinery general manager Jacques Beuckelaers.

More than £30 million is being spent on the huge plant as it is made more reliable and more efficient, with refinery general manager Jacques Beuckelaers spearheading what is known as the Future In Total project. The significant programme has now entered the technical element in a huge restructure that will see capacity and head count significantly reduced, while operations are bolstered ensure optimum performance on a leaner more efficient refinery. By far the largest single element is a £12 million complete overhaul of a crude distillation unit, where incoming oil is heated. Two separate sections, each weighing more than 118 tonnes, have been mounted and lifted into position, having been delivered individually on a 350 mile journey from Pembrokeshire to North Killingholme. It will make the unit more environmentally friendly though energy efficiency, saving 7,500 tonnes of fuel oil, equivalent to heating 1,000 large houses for a year, representing a Co2 saving of 20,000 tonnes annually. And while it is described as “the most spectacular feature of the tur naround,” there is no doubting the most pleasing. By the end of the fifth week of the project, that began in early June, a total of 240,000 hours had been worked without a safety incident. Mr Beuckelaers said: “At the moment we have 650 contractors on site, going up to 900 contractors at peak. It is going safely and it is going smoothly. “The most important thing up to now is the excellent safety record. To achieve 240,000 hours without an accident is a massive achievement of the team. It doesn’t come via a miracle, the teams are working very hard. It is good preparation, good communication and good dialogue between the teams in the field, working together to make it a safe turnaround and a successful tur naround. “We have seen a lot of people anticipating potential problems, and then working to get a perspective from every angle.” “Safety is vitally important. It is a value, even more than a priority – a value is non-negotiable, part of the DNA of the company and a cornerstone of operational excellence.” Working together with contracting companies, charity donations of £1,000 a day are being made for accident-free weeks, with £35,000 already pledged to causes chosen by workers. “We asked the fitters, the scaffolders, those working on the frontline to pick the charities. It creates a certain emotional link, an engagement,” Mr Beuckelaers said. So far, benefactors have been British Lung Foundation, St Andrew’s Hospice, Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide, Humberston Hydrotherapy Pool and Life for a Kid.

MAJOR MOVE: The images show the complexity of the installation of the new furnace within the crude distillation unit at Total Lindsey Oil Refinery, which was delivered to site in two parts due to the huge size.

PRESENTATIONS: Chris Smith, turnaround and inspection manager, right in above photo,oversees handovers to the first three charities, together with those who suggested them and the charity representatives.

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NOTHER major donation to motor neurone disease (MND)research has been made by port giant ABP, 10 years after Grimsby and Immingham port director Nick Palmer was diagnosed.

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The Waltham resident who led the South Bank ports through a period of phenomenal growth and infrastructure investment, passed away last year. A cheque for more than £15,000 has been handed over to the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN). The facility is the first European Institute which has been purpose-built for clinical research into MND and related neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. SITraN was chosen as ABP’s charity of the year for 2015, with Mr Palmer and Hull man Carl Giblin in the teams’ thoughts. ABP port manager for Hull and Goole, Mark Frith, said: “ABP has raised money for MND before,

following the diagnosis of former Grimsby and Immingham director Nick Palmer in 2006. “Carl Giblin was selected as a fitting recipient by staff, and we decided we’d like to also donate some money to the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, which does truly fantastic work in the field and has helped both Carl and Nick. “We sadly lost Nick in September last year, but we hope these donations go some way towards helping others who continue to battle this terrible disease.” ABP handed the Institute a cheque for more than £15,000 following a year of fundraising, which included cake sales, sponsored walks, a golf day and a marathon 200-mile cycle ride from Hillsborough in Northern Ireland with Green Port Hull main contractors the Graham Lagan Construction Group Joint Venture, to Grimsby. Dame Pamela Shaw, SITraN director and pro-vice-chancellor for the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health, said: “On behalf of everyone here at SITraN I would

VITAL CAUSE: Emma Davey, of SITraN, accepts the cheque from ABP port manager for Hull & Goole, Mark Frith. Top, Nick Palmer. like to say a very big thank you to all the staff, customers and supporters of ABP for their remarkable fundraising efforts. This generous gift will make a real difference and help us to accelerate our research and the development of new treatments for patients.

“Through the vision, commitment and collaboration of staff, patients, donors and friends we will continue to make great progress and ultimately combat MND. Thank you so much for your support.”

All aboard: Apprentices set sail on team-building trip of a lifetime EIGHT Associated British Ports trainees took on the challenge of a lifetime when they participated in the 2016 Apprentice Ship Cup. The apprentices, who all work for ABP on the Humber in the marine and engineering departments, spent five days aboard the tall ship Bessie Ellen, the last wooden sailing ketch still under sail. They raced from Falmouth to Southampton against young people from across the UK and beyond. Organised by Merseyside Adventure Sailing Trust, ABP put up a team against Glendale, Peel Holdings, Sellafield Ltd, Nuvia, Riverside, GetRag, Liverpool City Council, Pendennis Ship Builders and Liverpool University. The event is designed to give apprentices the chance to develop their teamworking and problem-solving skills, as well as their self confidence, leadership and communication skills. ABP’s marine training manager, Captain Martin Gough, said: “The Apprentice Ship Cup provides a fantastic opportunity for these SHIP SHAPE: ABP apprentices on tall ship Bessie Ellen for the 2016 Apprentice Ship Cup. Left, ready to set sail, and right, enjoying the spoils of their hard work.

young people and we didn’t hesitate in offering them the chance to take part. “The experience will undoubtedly benefit both their professional and personal development and will provide memories I’m sure they’ll treasure for many years to come.” Capt Gough, formerly Humber dock master, took the role on yearly last year, spearheading the industry-leading marine apprenticeship scheme that has been expanded this year to include the first intake of marine pilotage apprentices. The race ended with a gala dinner and presentation ceremony, at which ABP was named Biggest Promoter of this year’s race. George Davies, ABP marine operations apprentice, was on his first trip aboard a sail training ship. He said: “Some challenging weather conditions of strong winds and heavy rain meant we had some exciting sailing and it really brought home the need to work as an effective team.”

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ISHERMEN may no longer be able to catch cod and haddock off the shores of Britain in the next century, according to a Humber marine expert.

Climate change could force some species of fish to move north in search of colder waters to be replaced by species not traditionally caught or farmed in UK waters, Professor Mike Elliott, director of the University of Hull’s Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies (IECS) has said. He was commenting as the university announced its role in a multi-national European research project to understand how global warming will affect fish and shellfish resources and the economic activities that depend on them. The Climate Change and European Aquatic Resources project, known as CERES, aims to help fisheries and aquaculture sectors in marine and inland waters adapt to anticipated changes in the climate. Experts say that urgent action is needed to safeguard long-term food security. The University’s primary role will be to assess risks and opportunities for fisheries and aquaculture as stocks move further north and new species take their place. Professor Elliott, who is leading the Humber team on the CERES project, said: “Climate change could mean that we don’t catch as many cod, haddock and plaice as we do now. “Cold water species will move further north and in the next century we might not be able fish for them any longer. However, something else will take their place. A couple of decades ago, anchovies were rare in our waters, but now

HORIZON SCANNING: Prof Mike Elliott, director of the University of Hull’s Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies. we catch them in the North Sea. “Warming waters brings risks, such as ocean acidification and sea level rise, but the growth potential of species and marine productivity may increase. In the next century we may be catching and culturing species that we have not even thought about yet. Therefore, we need to make sure that fisheries and aquaculture are able to take advantage of these changing circumstances.” Professor Elliott said that climate change will mean a switch of species on our plates too, as supply chains change and others become more readily available. He added: “People are already eating Vietnamese catfish instead of cod or haddock with their chips, and we also now eat orange roughy, or deep sea perch. We now farm the non-native species the Manila clam in the south of England and, in the future, instead of using small sprat or herring for whitebait, we could be eating little anchovies instead.”

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studies departments. Dr Anita Franco, senior fish ecologist in IECS, said: “We will apply industry-derived risk management tools linked to computer models to assess fishery and aquaculture opportunities resulting from climate change scenarios. “The analysis will look at the vulnerability and knowledge gaps for data-poor fisheries and aquaculture sectors, where quantifying the impacts of climate change on both the biological and economic performance are not yet possible.” The CERES project will involve 125 scientists from 26 European countries, as well as 15 from non-European countries, including the USA and Canada. The project has

contributions from oceanographers, hydrologists, modellers, ecologists, aquatic physiologists, social scientists, economists, fishermen and fish and shellfish far mers. CERES co-ordinator Prof Myron Peck, of Hamburg University, said: “The EU requires fishing and aquaculture to be environmentally sustainable, economically viable and socially acceptable. It has to provide long-term European food security. Climate change will affect the way we achieve these ambitions and so a greater understanding is urgently needed to ensure that management measures remain appropriate and achievable.”

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Brexit Implications The implications of Brexit are likely to be farreaching however, at present, the effects on speciﬁc areas of business and law are uncertain. Tom Rook, trainee solicitor, takes a look at how the leave vote may affect businesses. The future is heavily dependant on which model the UK chooses to adopt in re-negotiating its relationship with the EU. Three scenarios are the most likely, assuming that, despite leaving the EU, the UK will wish to retain strong trade links with the EU market. These are: 1. The ‘Norwegian Model’ - the UK joins the European Free Trade Association and the European Economic Area, and so retains access to the common market on the same basis as Norway (under this model, the UK will retain many elements of EU Law, such as those relating to workers’ rights and data protection, and would be expected to provide a reasonable degree of free movement of workers, in exchange for free movement of goods). 2. The UK negotiates an ongoing customs union with the EU (in the manner that Turkey has).

European partnership THE four-year CERES project is backed with funding of more than £4 million from the European Commission. Using the latest science, CERES will predict the distribution and production of major fish and shellfish species in different European regions. One of the main priorities will be to identify opportunities for new aquaculture and fisheries into the next century, the so-called Blue Growth agenda, including new species and methods of production. The University of Hull research team includes staff from IECS as well as experts from the Hull International Fisheries Institute, the Hull University Business School, and input from the law and politics and international

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likely to be publicised well in advance. For example, how will Brexit affect contracts and disputes? English law has long been a popular choice for commercial parties doing business. The law is widely considered to be comparatively certain and predictable, and our courts have a deserved reputation for independence, expertise and commerciality. These factors are independent from the UK’s membership of the EU and so the popularity of English law in this sense is unlikely to diminish. The impact of Brexit on other areas of business will be determined by Government policy. Many local businesses have beneﬁtted directly or indirectly from European Regional Development Funding, which contributed towards the (ongoing) regeneration of Freeman Street. We should expect Westminster to replace these funds and make adequate future provision for funding in the area. Wilkin Chapman solicitors will be monitoring the likely impact of the UK’s exit from the EU and will continue to issue legal updates as the UK’s position becomes clearer.

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of post-vote uncertainty with a considerable amount of hype from both sides of the debate. Much of it is based on spin, speculation, and assumptions. That’s not helpful, but I fear it will remain with us until we get hard facts we can replace it with.” He highlighted that although the UK had voted to leave the EU, it had David Riggall, Managing Director not yet actually done so, as a result of which nothing had yet really of On Loan Recruitment said that, changed. in the wake of the Brexit, vote “And the main thing that hasn’t calmness and stability were needed changed is that the UK in general, to allow the country to work and this region in particular, are through the implications of the still open for business,” he said. decision. “The businesses here want to “People seem to be losing sight of grow, and to expand into new the fact that the referendum took markets. To do that they’ll need place less than four weeks ago, which means we’re still in a period always need employees of the right

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area for almost two decades. “We have seen highs and lows for the area, and while the current period is the most uncertain we have ever experienced, I’m convinced the companies here have the resilience and determination to carry on through it, and emerge successful at the other side. “We’re here to help them do that, because people are the most important dimension in any business, should you need any assistance or advice on employment we would be pleased to hear from you.”

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THE MARITIME and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) are the main parties responsible for health and safety regulation of the UK offshore wind industry – the MCA for vessel related incidents and the HSE for installation and shore based incidents. Two recent developments will see higher sentences for those who come before the courts for health and safety related offences. First, the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Commencement No. 11 (Order) 2015 came into force during 2015 and raised the maximum penalty a Magistrates' Court can impose to an unlimited fine. Previously their powers had been limited. Second, new sentencing guidelines which came into force on February 1, 2016 have changed the way in which the Courts sentence companies and individuals found guilty of corporate manslaughter and health

and safety offences. These are already leading to a significant increase in the sentences being imposed. The guidelines set out a range of proposed sentences although the actual sentence depends on a number of different factors such as the degree of culpability of the offender, the harm caused and, in the case of companies, their annual tur nover. Looking at the worst case scenario the proposed fine for the worst health and safety offences by large companies (i.e. those with turnover in excess of £50 million) is a starting point of £4 million within a range of £2.6 million to £10 million. For the worst corporate manslaughter offences, the suggested fine for large companies is a starting point of £7.5 million and a range of £4.8 million - £20 million. The intention is that these fines will have a real economic impact on the perpetrators. For individuals imprisonment is now a real possibility.

Whilst the sentencing guidelines are aimed at offences under terrestrial health and safety legislation the Courts have already demonstrated their willingness to utilise them for similar offences under the Merchant Shipping Act. In April of this year, one of the authors of this article, Andrew Oliver, prosecuted a case for the MCA relating to a breach of Section 100 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, being the unsafe operation of a ship. Mold Crown Court heard how Master Alexander Baird had failed to manage his vessel ST AMANT in a safe manner. Drills were not completed, crew were not certificated, the deck was cluttered, and safety equipment was not operational. The Court readily applied the new sentencing guidelines and in doing so sentenced Mr Baird to nine months imprisonment. It is clear that the increased likelihood of more severe sentences for companies and individuals re-enforces the need to be ever

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Seafood Week starts. Mr Bennett, chef patron at The Comfy Duck restaurant and a director at host venue Oaklands Hall Hotel, on the A18 Barton Street, is looking forward to the day. He said: “I think it is great for the area and for Lincolnshire as a whole, and even better Taking place at Oaklands Hall when you consider just how Hotel in Laceby, northern many local suppliers there are, Lincolnshire’s most prominent be it fish from the market, chefs, Colin McGurran and cheese or eggs. Steven Bennett will headline an afternoon of cooking demonstrations, learning workshops, activities and entertainment. Michelle Lalor, editor of the Grimsby and Scunthorpe Telegraph, the business behind the brands, said: “We’re really looking forward to celebrating local produce and the people behind it, and I’d really encourage businesses involved in the entire sector, from farm to fork and sea to plate, to speak to the team and get involved. “Whether it is Lincolnshire Michelle Lalor sausages, Grimsby traditionally smoked fish or “Our whole ethos for the fruit and vegetables from restaurant is built around our across the county, we want to suppliers and I am hoping a lot raise the profile of the larder of them will jump on board and we call home.” use it as a promotion for their As well as putting on the own business.” event, the Telegraph will be Passionate about provenance, publishing a special celebratory supplement ahead he said the event could help spread the message of the of the day, which falls in a vitality of the area. “foodie heritage fortnight” to tuck in to. “If, as a country, we consume It takes place on Lincolnshire more of our own products, the whole Brexit thing might not Day weekend, days after Humber Seafood Summit closes be such an issue. Keeping it in Cleethorpes, and just before local and awareness of where

Whether it is Lincolnshire sausages, Grimsby traditionally smoked fish or fruit and vegetables from across the county, we want to raise the profile of the larder we call home

our food is from, and buying in season, is really important. “Even in Tesco, we can look and see where something is from. If you buy Lincolnshire kale rather than kale from Israel, supermarkets will have to put in more lines that are local. That will bring money back into the local economy. Restaurants and hotels have a duty to do the due diligence and to buy more locally too.” Taking place from noon to 6pm, there will be exhibitions and stands for all, with a major focus on fun. “It is going to be fun,” endorsed Mr Bennett. “I will be demonstrating a home-cook dish as well as restaurant dishes, so if people are looking for ideas for dinner parties it will work. I don’t know exactly what yet, but it will be fresh, local and seasonal, and could well be some game with the time of year. “I am looking forward to hosting with Colin, that is great for the area that we have the highest profile chef in Lincolnshire involved. His ethos is exactly the same as ours, he even grows all of his vegetables. “This is so important because we live and work in the garden of the country. We produce more fruit and vegetables than the rest of the UK, and we should shout about that. It should be a really exciting day.” ● To get involved or to register your interest, call Becky Darnell on 01472 806999 or e-mail becky.darnell@grimsby telegraph.co.uk

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SCUNTHORPE construction company is celebrating its continued success by moving into new premises in the town. G.S. Kelsey Construction Ltd is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and since it was established in 1996, the company has worked on hundreds of projects in North and North East Lincolnshire. Having now outgrown its current premises on the South Park Industrial Estate, the team are set to move into new, larger premises on Brigg Road in September. As well as having worked on and currently working on a large number of projects in the region, the company is also involved in community work, helping apprentices and working with schools and colleges. The Kelsey family have operated as builders in North Lincolnshire for over 100 years. Arthur Benjamin Kelsey established a contracting company in Crowle at the turn of the twentieth Century, working mainly for the district councils, the railway and local farmers. Arthur Snowden Kelsey succeeded his father and continued the business until retirement in 1982. After working as a quantity surveyor for several years, his son Geoffrey Snowden Kelsey established G.S. Kelsey Ltd in 1996 with the intention of providing local authorities throughout Northern Lincolnshire with a small, reliable, professional contractor capable of undertaking new builds, extensions and refurbishment work. Consequently, working for local authorities and public sector organisations has become a

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info@gskelsey.co.uk www.gskelsey.co.uk LATEST PROJECT: Laceby Lodge Services on the A46 Roundabout, Laceby. In 2010, Andrew Kelsey and Matthew Robinson were appointed as directors to run the business as Geoffrey Kelsey retired. Last month, as part of the company’s continued growth and in celebration of 20 years as a limited company, the new G.S. Kelsey Construction Ltd logo and brand was launched to reflect the fresh, strong identity of the larger company it has developed into today. The vast majority of the company’s turnover is secured through competitive tendering but it has a history of negotiating work with repeat customers. Joint director Matthew Robinson said: “I think a lot of people based in Scunthorpe know GS Kelsey. We can offer a design and build service. We work with someone from their initial concept through to completion. “We build up a good rapport with our clients and the architects. They trust what we do and they know it is going to be finished in time and within budget. If there are complications, we will come up with solutions.” Mr Robinson said they always employ local people to work on the projects. The company will once again be sponsoring this year’s Community Champion Awards in the category of Community Project of the Year. It also won a number of awards including the ABP Business Growth Award in 2015 at the Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards. “That was for taking the business from £6 million to £10 million,” Mr Robinson said. Projects that the company is currently working on include 12

luxury apartments on the former Majestic cinema site on Oswald Road in Scunthorpe which is a 45-week build, the Laceby Lodge Services on the A46 Roundabout, which is due to finish next month, the Westcliff Precinct Hub for Ongo Homes, which will start later this year and the Brigg Recreation Ground. The company has also completed five dwellings for Shoreline Housing Partnership on Wicklow Mews in Cleethorpes and the recent refurbishment of the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe’s Church Square. G.S. Kelsey Construction Ltd, which employs 30 staff including two young apprentices, has previously worked with big names such as BMW, Toyota and Spar. Mr Robinson said: “In the last 20 years, we have worked on around 250 local construction projects. You cannot travel far through Scunthorpe or Grimsby without seeing something we have built.” Mr Robinson, who started out at the company as an apprentice himself, now works with apprentices at North Lindsey College and the company also goes into local schools and gives educational talks. “A good percentage of our workforce started as apprentices at GS Kelsey,” Mr Robinson said. The company has also donated equipment to community projects such as the Bottesford Beck. For more information, visit gskelsey.co.uk or call 01724 854362.

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Now in its fifth year, this unique training initiative gives apprentices practical experience of a shutdown, undertaking process maintenance tasks that they will eventually encounter on a real industrial site. Neil Mann, operations manager, said: “At HCF CATCH we believe strongly in the Plant Shutdown programme. It enables the outgoing apprentices to experience a life like, real time, shutdown experience without some of the inherent risks encountered on chemical sites. “Many tradespeople in our area do not experience shutdowns for years at a time, so we feel passionately that this gives HCF CATCH apprentices a real head start in their chosen careers.” CATCH emulates the same working conditions of a real process plant without the high level of risk associated with processing and handling hazardous substances. The facility uses water throughout the plant, allowing apprentices to have real industrial training, without real industrial risks. The apprentices will be actively involved throughout all stages of the shutdown from initial planning to commissioning and testing of the plant for successful completion. Training for apprentices generally happens in the workshop where everything is controlled, however, working on a process plant things do not always go to plan. This encourages apprentices to think on their feet and work together in multi-disciplinary teams to solve problems. Tasks that will be carried out include: mechanical maintenance and installation, pipefitting, electrical maintenance and installation, control room

Energy specialist recruits AWARD-winning Flixborough Eco Technologies has appointed a business development manager in Sheralee Thompson. The Scunthorpe company, set up by Giles Barker in 2012, last month won Renewable Energy Installer of the Year and Small to Medium Energy Business of the Year at the Lincolnshire Energy Awards. It is now building further, with a second apprentice to join the team, having opened a second office in Lincoln in the past year, supporting the base at Normanby Gateway. Sheralee said: “The company is already going from strength to strength. Using my previous sales experience, I am looking ahead to take us into new markets and expand our portfolio of clients as well as building new partnerships with the organisations in our area.” She joins from a corporate sales environment. Her appointment has been welcomed by both the firm’s business

administration apprentice, Laura Birkett, and Giles Barker, managing director. Miss Birkett, who has completed her Level Two NVQ in Business Administration, and is working towards Level Three, said: “It is always great to have a fresh outlook on things accompanied by welcoming new ideas and innovations. Sheralee is a credit to our team and I look forward to working with her as she has brought a new perspective and lots of really great ideas for taking us forward.” Mr Barker added: “Our business is evolving and we all really enjoy what we do which is why we work great together. Success is not something ready-made, it comes from your own actions.”

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operations and safe isolation of pumps and valves. Final statistics of the Plant Shutdown will be published on the HCF CATCH website. David Talbot, Chief Executive, comments: “We are really proud of

‘Plant Shutdown’ as real added value for the apprentices at CATCH. This is a valuable learning experience that has been running for a number of years and involves apprentices from a number of different trades working together

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to achieve a common goal – just like in real life shutdowns. At HCF CATCH we are here to support the competency and skills of the workforce to ensure the region continues to grow.” HCF CATCH is based at Stallingborough and is a realistic 10-acre industrial site that offers a range of technical competency and assessment programmes. CATCH Skills is a training and competency service operated by HCF CATCH. CATCH Skills has recently launched the “Introduction to Process Plant Operations” course. This course gives delegates practical experience of a working process plant and covers day-to-day process operation tasks allowing new process operators to gain experience that they would normally only gain on-site. For more information on HCF CATCH, CATCH Skills or Plant Shutdown, call 01469 552828.

Testing time brings electrifying result GRIMSBY electrician Arron Burnett has passed the City & Guilds Inspection & Testing course, seen by many as the ultimate qualification in his trade. An employee of Townsend, at 27 he is the youngest within the Cleethorpe Road business. Mr Burnett said: “I’m pleased I now have this qualification, I was told beforehand how hard it was and admittedly I was dreading it. I am pleased Paul Huntley (his manager) and Mark Shepherd (the managing director) gave me the opportunity to further develop my skills.” Having joined as an apprentice, he is coming up to a decade with the business. Mr Shepherd said: “He has

come a long way after starting out as an apprentice. As a business, we see it important to further develop skills of our staff. It not only helps us as a growing business but also the capabilities and successes of the staff.” Arron was in good hands when it came to his mentor. Mr Huntley added: “I have worked with Arron for many years now. He was a little hesitant at first about taking the test but, he did very well. I have also taken this test and passed so I know how hard it is and how much studying is involved. “We’re chuffed that he has another qualification to his name CONGRATULATIONS: Arron Burnett, left, and now able to use his new with manager Paul Huntley. skills.”

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RIMSBY’S Handelsbanken has welcomed two new corporate managers as it returns to full strength following the opening of a second northern Lincolnshire branch.

Scunthorpe’s launch and the subsequent retirement of Anthony Winn as branch manager had created vacancies at the Europa Park bank, as Peter Hough moved back down the A180 to help establish the Park Square office. Jim Livermore and Ed Waterhouse have joined the team, now led by former corporate manager Di Jones. “It has been a natural progression to a degree,” said Mrs Jones. “We have purposefully gone out and got two very

experienced corporate managers as a result of Handelsbanken expanding in to Scunthorpe. “We are now back to a 10-strong team, back up to our full complement, which is really good,” she said. Her own elevation, having joined the team just over a year ago as part of the in-house succession plan, had also created a position. Mr Livermore joins from HSBC. The married father of two young children, who lives in Cleethorpes, said: “Handelsbanken is a growing bank in the UK, and it invests in the local office and local people to service the local business. “I feel this is a good time for the town, I have seen great opportunities in Grimsby.” Originally from Holton-le-Claty, Mr

Livermore joined HSBC in West Yorkshire after university in 2003. He returned to the area in 2009. For the past decade East Yorkshire-based Mr Waterhouse has worked at Handelsbanken’s Hull Hesslewood branch, having joined it shortly after it opened. Again married with two children, in secondary and higher education, Mr Waterhouse said he was relishing a new opportunity. “We are empowered to make decisions locally,” he said. “Our decentralised model brings with it authority and responsibility, and that is always good for the customers. We don’t have sales targets, which means we can concentrate on our customers needs and tailor our work to them.”

Business development manager joins Luxus LOUTH-based technical compounder and recycler Luxus has appointed a new business development manager to help expand sales at home and abroad. Jaume Escoriza, pictured, joins the team from vacuum excavation company, Vac-Ex where for five years he was a general manager. He was responsible for the company’s design, manufacture and sales division, in addition to its growing export business. In his new role Jaume will build on the compounder’s existing client base. Sajid Mohammed, associate commercial director at Luxus, said: “We are delighted that Jaume has joined our team at this time. He has a great background when it comes to developing different markets as well as penetrating new applications. We are on course to market our high performance compounds to existing and new

clients. So he will play an active role in promoting our brand and securing new business for Luxus.” He will work with a diverse range of industries including automotive, civil engineering, retail logistics, horticulture and safety products. Mr Escoriza said: “I’ve been looking for potential employment in the Lincolnshire area and this was the first role that genuinely excited me thanks to a combination of its 51 year pedigree, a strong export focus and being a true leader in its field. “The lure of learning too, about new innovative thermoplastics products was heightened by the fact that Luxus’ highly specified compounds are engineered with a recycled content. Working for a business that is helping responsible clients to reduce landfill is a great bonus too.”

CR Parrott Consultants Ltd has welcomed Kato Tsang to the team as an assistant project manager. He brings experience within the institutional, commercial, healthcare, public and private sectors, gained working within Architectural Practices in both London and Hong Kong to the Scunthorpe team. Educated at North Lindsey College, he moved to Newcastle where he gained a qualification in interior design before specialising in architecture, studying to degree level at Newcastle University and then later achieving a masters through Leeds Metropolitan University. After several years working in Hong Kong, Mr Tsang is delighted to be relocating back to his home county. “I’ve had a fantastic few years working on projects abroad, but I’m pleased to be back in North Lincolnshire. The area is buzzing with the promise of future development and growth, and I, along with my colleagues, are looking forward to playing a part in its future.” Head of architectural services, Mike Berryman said: “We’re thrilled to welcome Kato aboard, he has already made a great impact within the team with his experience, skills and his enthusiasm and we’re very much looking forward to seeing him continue to develop his skillset.” Managing director, Chris Parrott, added: “This is an incredibly exciting time for the company and the area, and we’re delighted to be further strengthening our existing team with the arrival of Kato, who brings with him both experience and a passion for the work we do.”

Digital marketer role DEMAND from clients for marketing services has seen Laser Red welcome another team member. The Grimsby-based digital agency has taken on Faye Wood, as digital marketer to help customers make the most of their websites and online presence. From Lincoln, she joins the expanding Enterprise Village team with a degree in media production from her home city university. Having gone on to work for the higher education provider, she helped a large number of companies. She said: “Utilising digital technologies for marketing purposes has been my passion for many years, and I am thrilled to be able to share this passion with the Laser Red team and their clients.” Away from the office, Faye enjoys playing online games, attending comic conventions wearing self made armour, or perfecting her strength training. It comes as a move was made to streamline for growth recently, with sister company Red Cloud Hosting – set up to provide managed hosting services and support to clients during the recession as many web and hosting companies went into administration – has been taken in-house. It now looks after more than 200 clients.

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FLEET of new alternative vehicles will allow a family-run business to entice new customers to its already growing number of clients. Ready Rent A Car brought in a fleet of ten Jeep Renegades last month, which company director Nick Chamley says will give his loyal customers a wider choice of vehicles. The company, which was started in Grimsby almost 50 years ago, has added the cars to its overall fleet of around 2,000 vehicles. “It just enables us to offer an alternative and gives people a choice of models,” Nick said. “Usually people go for the basics Mondeo model, whereas this is more of a side step and allows us to enter more of a niche market. “However it will remain at the same price, it is just an alter native.” Ready Rent A Car was started by the Chamley family, with David at the helm of operations for many years.

Today it has grown to employing approximately 35 people, with its own workshop and mechanics on site to play a vital role in the smooth running of the business. Ready Rent A Car now boasts around 2,000 vehicles in its fleet, providing a full rental service, from daily to weekly and longer-ter m. The range is also enormous, with almost every customer catered for – cars, vans, minibuses, lorries and 4x4 vehicles are all available. Now in charge of operations, company director Nick Chamley, David’s son, continues to be delighted with the progress made by the company and its ethos of dealing with local businesses whenever possible: He added: “It is part of our growing trend to offer a different type of vehicle to our customers, rather than just offering the normal run-of-the-mill car. “We are trying to entice new customers and this should allow us to do that.” Ready Rent A Car has sister

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depots and offices in Scunthorpe, Lincoln and Hull. A full range of all the vehicles available are stocked at all the branches, ensuring a wide range of choice for customers. This is all a far cry from Ready Rent A Car’s beginnings almost 50

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Family opinions considered when choosing a company car THE husbands, wives and children of Britain’s company car drivers play a crucial role in selecting their vehicles, according to new research. Figures from Skoda demonstrate just how much Brits, whose jobs require them to spend time on the road, take their family’s opinions into consideration when making up their minds on a new set of wheels. When asked who they consult with when choosing a company car, nearly half of drivers said

their partner is their first port of call – a quarter of men seek their wife’s opinions (39 per cent) and over half of women (51 per cent) chat through options with their husbands. Meanwhile, in around one in seven households, children get a say – with many of those surveyed claiming their kids’ opinions matter most. In general, men seek fewer opinions than women, with 11 per cent claiming they don’t consult anyone at all. Conversely, more than a third

of women ask for opinions from as many people as possible, even probing colleagues and friends about what they think. Nearly half of company car drivers take children to and from school in their “work wheels”, while almost three quarters ferry their kids to social occasions and sports practice every week. Henry Williams, head of fleet sales at Skoda UK, said: “We understand a company car isn’t just used for business, it’s also for home life.”

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Imperial Commercials’ Ford offering on South Humberside Industrial Estate has received a Ford Chairman’s Award for a second time in four years. It is designed to recognise dealers delivering the highest standards of customer satisfaction and quality, coupled with outstanding sales achievements. The award, which bears the name of Jim Farley, chairman and chief executive of Ford of Europe, was presented by Imperial’s group regional director, Sukhdev Singh. Mr Singh said: “Within Imperial Commercials we are proud of our culture of really wanting to deliver a high level of customer care and satisfaction. The Ford Chairman’s Award is based on an independent assessment of a number of measures of how well we look after our customers and is a tribute to the dedication and personal approach of our wonderful staff.” The gong was last receivde by the Estate Road Two team in 2011. Dave Hastings, regional van sales manager, said: “To have beaten 108

Month in Review Ports’ powerhouse push PORTS: Northern port giants have united to ensure one voice is heard by Government when it comes to improving vital freight and transport links. Described as an unprecedented collaboration, signatories to the agreement include Humber giant Associated British Ports, and estuary operator PD Ports, as well as Port of Tyne and Peel Ports, the company behind Liverpool’s maritime might. Often competitors, they have brokered a ground-breaking pact to pursue a Northern Ports Strategy, working together to create new jobs in and around the vital quaysides and terminals. It also has the aim of boosting investment in an East-West Freight Supercorridor with improvements to rail infrastructure being the ultimate priority.

Fish first for Morrisons SEAFOOD: Supermarket giant Morrisons has won the title of Meat & Fish Retailer of the Year at SuperMeat & Fish Awards 2016. Held at the Hilton on Park Lane in London, it is a huge boost to the large workforce in Grimsby where all seafood manufacturing takes place. Full production began earlier this year at the former Headland and Kerry Foods plant, which was completely overhauled by the West Yorkshire giant as part of a second phase major investment in Grimsby. Initial lines were introduced last August. FORD FOCUS: Imperial Commercials accpets the Ford Chairman's Award for 2015. From left, Alex Hollamby, senior sales executive; Natalie Saunders, warranty/service administrator; Sukhdev Singh, regional director; Darren Tedder, zone manager – Ford Motor Co; Dave Hastings, regional van sales manager and Skip Schultz, commercial vehicles sales executive. Right, the gong, now being displayed proudly. other Transit Centres throughout the UK is an achievement we are extremely proud of !” The Grimsby dealership is one of 38 in the Imperial Group, the leading independent commercial vehicle dealer group in the UK.

As well as Ford, Imperial in Grimsby also deals with DAF Trucks, for whom Imperial is also the largest dealer group, with 23 locations. Part of Imperial Holdings SA, the wider company now has 52,000

employees, having begun as a motor dealer in downtown Johannesburg in 1948. Now annual turnover is in the region of £6 billion. In the UK, of the 1,500 employees, 400 are in technician grades.

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Month in Review BRC accreditation for salmon specialist JCS SEAFOOD: Grimsby salmon specialist JCS Fish Ltd has secured the international ‘gold standard’ for safety and quality standards, netting a British Retail Consortium A Grade. A celebratory barbecue lunch was held at the Murray Street premises to toast the achievement, which is based on an independently audited safety and quality certification programme. It is increasingly a must-have for food businesses seeking to supply retailers, and is now held by more than 22,000 operators in 123 countries.

Guten tag to retailers! RETAIL: Inventor and great-grandmother Joanne Hobson is celebrating getting her pet product listed in more than 300 European stores. The Healing woman brought forward EezyEat4Pets, a functional take on the Elizabethan collar, three years ago. And now she has secured a licensing agreement with a German business that is taking it to market. It caught the eye of 4Cats Heimtierbedarf, and now the product is being marketed to retailers and wholesalers globally, with a major chain of stores across Germany and Austria the first to receive supplies in October.

Bigger slice of the market PROPERTY: The management of more than 250 properties in North East Lincolnshire has changed hands after Jackson, Green & Preston acquired Bacons Property Management. It will swell the portfolio of one of Grimsby's oldest firms of chartered surveyors to more than 1,200, with the opportunity having come about as Bacons' sole proprietor, Paul Clifford, retired.

PRESENTATION: Stable staff Flo Willis and Derick Rezac receive the prizes from James Sweeting, left, Pipers Crisps director, and Christian Carver.

LOUCESTERSHIRE trainer Jonjo O’Neill has taken a taste of Lincolnshire home to his Jackdaw’s Castle yard, after winning the Best Turned Out Racehorses Award from Market Rasen Racecourse.

representatives of the Elsham Wold-based snacks company. Alex Albone, brand owner at Pipers Crisps, said: “Stable staff are the unsung heroes and heroines of the sport of horseracing and we are delighted to play our part in rewarding them for their efforts in A hot favourite when the award was looking after their horses and making racing days at Market Rasen announced, stable staff get a share of Racecourse such a success.” £1,000 plus a box of Pipers Crisps. The initiative has been praised by It was presented at the Betfred the chief executive of the National Summer Plate & Lincs FM Ladies’ Association of Stable Staff, George Day on Saturday, one of the most McGrath, who said he hoped other popular fixtures of the year. racecourses will follow the “wonderful Mr O’Neill said: “Market Rasen has example”. always been one of my favourite He said: “We welcome the initiative racecourses. We’ve been lucky to have shown in recognising the hard work a fair few winners there over the years. The horses can’t always win so the racing staff put into getting their horses looking their best. it’s brilliant for the team to come away with something and winning the “Not only do the staff work hard to ‘Best Turned Out Awards’ has become get the horses looking great, they also a bit of a habit. The staff who travel make a great effort to make with the horses do a great job.” themselves look smart, not an easy Grooms Flo Willis and Derick Rezac task when you consider the nature of the work.” were presented with the award by

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A company that operates some of the UK’s most potentially hazardous energy facilities has won a string of top safety awards. PX Group, responsible for the operation of Stallingborough Combined Heat and Power Plant, secured seven Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents accolades. The team at the 16MW electricity and steam provider for titanium dioxide giant Cristal, won a gold award. Mark Kenrick, pictured, director of safety, health, environment and risk management with PX Group, said: “Our goal is to operate our assets without harming people, environment or

indeed the equipment and we put a huge amount of effort into achieving this. It is nice to see that this drive has delivered thousands of hours of incident free work which, in turn, has been recognised by RoSPA. “Credit for these awards goes to all our employees who, every day, apply the working practices which have kept them and the areas in which they work, safe.” Gas processing plants and fuel storage depots are also part of the portfolio.

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ODAL Training, the UK’s first fully-integrated multimodal logistics training centre, has appointed Lincolnshire construction company Gelder Group to deliver work on its facility in Immingham. The £1.2 million contract will be on the internal fit-out of the 5,696 m2 facility on Kings Road. This will include the learning resource centre, with its ICT suite, classrooms and seminar and conference facilities. Once complete, the next step will be the installation of state-of-the-art simulators for training maritime crew, truck and crane drivers, as well as a live rail track centre. It will also include warehouse operational training and working at height training to support the renewables and energy sectors in the region. The external works programme, which involved updating the building’s façade and installing a new roof, is almost complete. Sam Whitaker, group director of strategic projects at the Grimsby Institute Group, and a Humber Local Enterprise Partnership

VISION NEARS: Above and left, how Modal Training will look once complete. Below, what the areas will be used for. Employment and Skills Board member, said: “The development is really starting to take shape, with the external works now complete. We are looking forward to seeing the next stage of work inside the building. “Gelder Group has a great reputation here in Lincolnshire and beyond, so it’s a real coup to have a local company on board to transform the Modal Training site.” Established in 1988 as a two-man operation, the Gelder Group has grown to operate across 21 separate divisions, branches and companies, and is currently working on the Cartergate development with North East Lincolnshire Council, and has also been involved with Cleethorpes Leisure Centre. It is headquartered at Sturton by

Stow, between Hemswell and Lincoln. Gavin Parker, senior contracts manager at Gelder Group, said: “We are delighted to be associated with this pioneering development and look forward to working with Modal Training and Engie on which I am sure will be a successful project.” The works at Modal Training are being designed and project managed by Engie’s architectural consultancy, based in Grimsby. Marcus Asquith, deputy partnership director at Engie, added: “We are delighted that Gelder Group have been appointed to carry out the next phase of works on this exciting project and look forward to seeing the new facilities when it is completed.”

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EXTOLLING THE VIRTUES: Mr Whitaker outlines the Modal Training model at an event soon after the launch.

● Continued from page one. She said: “Modal Training is giving me the opportunity to work with employers across the full logistics supply chain, which is a challenge, but one I’m relishing. It’s a UK first and something that is unique for the industry and I’m excited to be a part of it.” On the road front, a unique partnership with DriverMetrics, a system developed at Cranfield University, will see Modal use the Driver Risk Index, the world’s number one behavioural driving safety programme. It can help businesses analyse the profile of their drivers and their behaviour using software to identify areas to make them safer or more efficient. DriverMetrics is already

used by the likes of Shell, Mercedes, Balfour Beatty and Wincanton, and is seen as an all-in-one fleet risk management platform. Businesses will be able to use a scientifically-validated suite of behavioural change interventions, which include e-learning, workshops and coaching, with Modal Training arranging delivery. Mr Henry said: “The shortage of skilled drivers in the UK is well reported and we wanted to provide a solution. Our offer will help businesses assess people at an early stage, as part of their recruitment process, to ensure our industry has a supply of competent drivers. It will also help to identify any skills shortfalls in their current workforce, to ensure the drivers they have are

operating to the highest standards.” Driver behaviour is a contributing factor in around 95 per cent of road incidents. Modal has taken on Engie Fabricom’s former Immingham base, transforming more than 5,696 sq m of space off Manby Road to replicate the working environment, in a wide range of settings. Facilities will include extensive warehousing, engineering and rail safety teaching facilities. The concept was launched in October last year with 100 stakeholders invited to an event at Humber Royal Hotel. At the time, Mike Parker, chairman of the Humber LEP’s Employment and Skills Group, and a past chair of fgovernors at Grimsby Institute said: “It is fantastic

that we are marking another first for the Humber – the UK’s first single point of study for a diverse range of qualifications suited to all modes of transport. Logistics are vital to supporting the Humber’s growing renewables sector, as a source of new career opportunities and in consolidating our status as the UK’s Energy Estuary. “To enable current and future workforces to take maximum advantage of the new jobs which are being created, we must meet the challenge of bridging the skills gap. This is why the LEP supported Grimsby Institute’s case for a major investment in the logistics centre and worked with Government to ensure Local Growth Funding was allocated.”

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£500,000 investment in a state-of-the-art medical centre has been unveiled at Immingham, as a gold standard in occupational health for Britain’s largest port complex is brought to the fore.

a world away from an old modular base on part of the former fertiliser ter minal. Dr Richard Barr, a director of Occupational Health Services alongside Lynne Fulton, said: “Little did I know when I came onto the docks in the summer of 1970, that 46 years The devastating tidal surge that later I’d be opening a state-of-the-art struck in December 2013 wiped out the medical centre. previous premises for the safety“For the majority of time here I have focused service. had a close association with ABP, Now a long-standing partnership providing occupational health with Associated British Ports has paid services, in fact they were our very dividends after a challenging first client. Without ABP I wouldn’t be two-and-a-half years since the Humber here, and we wouldn’t be here. We owe caused havoc. them a great deal of gratitude for that. Those involved in the new build, “Anyone who works in occupational close to the eastern entrance to the health knows you need the support of port on Robinson Road, together with management. ABP has always had a other stakeholders, were invited to an commitment to health and safety and official opening of the enlarged facility, as a result has provided us with this

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CUT AND DRY: Mike Sellers opens OH Services new base on Port of Immingham, with business partner Dr Richard Barr. Pictures: Jon Corken. state-of-the-art medical centre. It is a major investment. We have a very pleasant building to work in, and we have the latest technology so we can provide a gold standard to our clients. “There is always one company, one business in an area, that provides the standard that all the others say ‘we want to match that’. What I am pleased about is that with ABP’s help, we are the gold standard and, for once, others are going to have to chase us.” As well as health care for the port community, vital screening and testing is provided in one of the most dangerous working environments, with passes vital to be able to sail for many. “It has been quite a difficult time over the last two-and-a-half years, but everyone mucked in, and today we have got this,” Dr Barr said. Recalling an initial temporary base

within a temporary structure on the port’s Mineral Quay, he said: “It was like Camp Bastion, it was pretty bad, but we met Mike Sellers, then the new port manager there, and in the meeting he said he would do his best to make sure we got decent facilities. I must say, he came up trumps, and I have a lot to thank him for.” Underlining that fact, Mr Sellers was invited to join Mr Barr and officially open the new building, which ABP has provided and OH Services run. He said: “We are really proud to have a facility like Occupational Health Services here on the port. “I have worked at a number of ports and not all have this type of facility. “Dr Barr knows ABP very well and knows our employees intimately, and it is an industry that has got safer and safer. Health and safety is taken very seriously, it is very important.

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INVITED GUESTS: The official opening of OH Services Ltd at Port of Immingham. Guests were treated to a hog roast, refreshments and ice cream, as well as being able to test their own health and fitness. Right, the completed building.

“These days the role is more about making sure we have the right screening carried out, that there is drug and alcohol testing, and all of this can be provided here.” Referring back to the circumstances that led to the new build, Mr Sellers said: “I am not sure if it was fortunate or not, but I missed the flood, having been appointed in January 2014, so I got involved in the clean-up. “I am now really pleased we have a facility like this in Immingham. When the tidal surge happened, there were two areas in addition to operations we needed up and running. The Seafarers’ Centre, and Occupational Health Services. It is what we provide for the whole port community. “Everyone can be proud of what has been achieved here.”

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Team and leader praised for keeping business afloat PRACTICE manager Lynne Fulton, business partner of Dr Richard Barr, was described as a “major force” in realising what is now in place. The director, who manages the 17-strong team based across Immingham and Hull, recalled the visit to the scene of the devastation the morning after the night before, after Dr Barr told guests how what had been achieved “could not have been done without her”. In turn, she praised her team for their unstinting efforts as she recalled the first visit post breach. She said: “It was completely wiped out, the whole building was under water. It was quite a shock and a lot to take in when it came to thinking about exactly what we needed to do.” Only two operational days were lost as the business responded. “We need to be on the docks, and it has been a challenging two and a half years, but we have managed to keep going. We have an office in Hull, on King George Dock, and we have kept all 17 employees in a job, and apart from those two days, we managed to continue providing a service. We have built the business back up, and had various moves inbetween then and now. We were in an annex, a modular building on a car park and the top floor of the dock office in Immingham. “Having started in a modular building, now it is a great state-of-the-art centre which can cater for all the needs of ABP employees and all the private companies and clients we also deal with. It is a better location as well,

WARM WELCOME: Lynne Fulton in the reception area. Right, with Dr Richard Barr, who presented her with a bouquet of flowers in recognition of her efforts. being based just as we enter the docks. “We have got to thank the whole team, they have worked in conditions that have not been ideal, but the morale has been excellent. That’s why we thought we would celebrate and draw a line under the tough times of the last two and a half years and look forward to our new

premises.” The Robinson Road new-build features more consultation rooms, with the latest equipment for health surveillance brought in, as well as additional space for the management and administration of the company. “It has really enhanced the business as well as the service we provide,” Mrs Fulton added.

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TO LET OFFICES SUITE 1 WOODFIELD HOUSE, SCUNTHORPE

TO LET OFFICES 9A MARKET PLACE BRIGG NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE,

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Superbly located modern offices on the western side of Scunthorpe close to the M180 motorway and situated in the Berkeley Business centre on Doncaster Road.

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A short distance from the Gallagher retail park, Tesco, B&Q and M&S development under construction.

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Size approx. 118.88 sqm (1270 sq ft).

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Dedicated parking spaces and general parking areas.

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RENT ON APPLICATION COMPETITIVE TERMS Large selection selection of of Large further properties further properties available

Situated in the centre of Brigg overlooking Market Place.

Close to Wrawby Street and its prime retail. Accommodation on 1st & 2nd floors with amenities on both levels. Comprises of 9 offices approx. 146.85 sqm (1575 sq ft). Immediately available on negotiable lease terms.

RENT £5,950 PER ANNUM

Contact Contact John John Knight Knight Tel: 01724 870520 Tel: 01724 870520 32 Oswald Road, Scunthorpe

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Kings Road IMMINGHAM •Development •Planning for 18 houses •Investment income of £12,000pa

£375,000

150 Granville Street GRIMSBY •Manufacturing / warehouse •9,459 sq ft •Excellent yard

£26,000 pa

226 Victoria Street GRIMSBY •Car showroom & workshops •8,559 sq ft •Used car sales pitch

£60,000 pa

Wootton Road BRIGG •Offices, workshop & yard •3,345 sq ft •Site are 0.72 acres

£8,750 pa

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‘Wood’ you look at the difference! A

LONG-established Grimsby business has transformed a neighbouring eyesore, creating 3,600 sq ft of new trade counter space in the town.

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FAMILY BUSINESS: John and Linda Plater at the new units in Charlton Street, Grimsby.

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LOUTH 01507 602264 GRIMSBY 01472 362020 LINCOLN 01522 511665 MABLETHORPE 01507 473476 SKEGNESS 01754 766061 SPILSBY 01790 752151 SUTTON ON SEA 01507 441166 WOODHALL SPA 01526 354111 www.tes-property.co.uk www.rightmove.co.uk

CHARTERED SURVEYORS & COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS

GRIMSBY

SCUNTHORPE

165, Cleethorpe Road

* Prominent retail/office accommodation * Approx. 3047 sqft/283 sqm on a GIA basis * Ground floor retail/office space approx. 872 sqft/81 sqm NUFA * Offices over approx. 11013 sqft/103.4 sqm * On-site parking at rear * Suitable for a wide number of alternative uses, subject to appropriate consents and approvals * Freehold, EPC Rating D

PRICE: £150,000

FOR SALE

PRICE: Offers over £100,000

LOUTH

GRIMSBY

Units 13-19 Nottingham Court

307, Laceby Road

TO LET

9, Oswald Road * Retail unit approx. 1334 sqft/124 sqm * Overall depth approx. 96ft/9.2 m * First floor 2 bedroomed flat over with shared entrance on frontage * Investment potential, EPC Rating D

JW Plater, which for 42 years has provided timber garden products from a West Marsh base, has furthered its commercial property portfolio, having also been leasing a former facility it occupied up until 2001. Located in Charlton Street, close to the A180 and Birchin Way, patience paid off when the site became available, having harboured ambition for the site. “For years it was an eyesore. There was arson and children playing on the roof, it was a real concer n,” office manager and daughter-in-law of founder John Plater, Linda Plater said. “We tried to buy it a couple of times. It didn’t happen, but then it finally went to auction and we managed to purchase the land two years ago.” Split into three 1,200 sq ft units, two are already occupied, with Mr Tox, an automotive business, and Plater taking on additional display space for the growing range of garden designs, from see-saws to expansive summer houses. “We have done everything, we have project managed it, brought the contractors in and done some of the work ourselves too,” said Mr Plater. It is now being self-marketed, along with assistance from North East Lincolnshire’s

EYE SORE: How it looked when JW Plater bought the site in Charlton Street, Grimsby at auction. economic development team. The local authority keeps a register of available commercial property to aid growth and economic investment enquiries. The remaining unit is now being marketed, so too another on the company’s original location further down Charlton Street, where it moved from 15 years ago. That was sub-divided and retained as another revenue stream. Focusing on the unit that has allowed the family business to expand, Linda

said: “It is so we can display more. We didn’t have enough display space and we do quite a big range of garden products, sheds and summer houses. People spending good money want to what they are getting, so it made sense for us.” With a mill at Marshchapel set in two acres and all manufacturing taking place there, Linda added: “This gives us more scope. If people want something, they can also take it that day. It allows us to provide a better service.”

SCUNTHORPE

TO LET/FOR SALE

* From approx 940 sqft/88 sqm to 2800 sqft/260 sqm in 7 units * Former Doctor's surgery premises, EPC D * Eaves approx. 4.25/14ft * Available as a whole approx.1792 sqft/166.5 * New full repairing & insuring lease available from 3 year terms sqm, or in 2 suites on separate leases * Suitable for creche/nursery use

11, Oswald Road FOR SALE

* Retail unit approx. 920 sqft/85.5 sqm * Rear ancillaries approx. 238 sqft/22.1 sqm * First floor 2 bedroomed flat over with shared entrance on frontage * Investment potential, EPC Rating C

RENT From £5,500 p.a.x. RENT from £5,500 p.a. Freehold £130,000 PRICE: Offers over £100,000

LOUTH

SCUNTHORPE

Unit 16, New Market Hall

13D, Cornmarket

13, Oswald Road

* Niche retail unit, Established New Market Hall Location * Approx. 121.5 sq ft ft/11.3 sq m * Available on new lease, Significant retail frontage * EPC Rating D

* Self contained first floor office * Approx. 22.10sq ft/238sq ft * Walk-in finish, with space heating, IT and phone points * New lease available, EPC Rating G

* Former licenced restaurant premises over 2 floors * Approx. 1490 sqft/138 sqm; plus ancillaries * Derelict first floor flat over part, sold in existing condition * Freehold, EPC Rating G

TO LET

RENT: 4000 p.a.

GRIMSBY

RENT £2,600 p.a.

GRIMSBY

FOR SALE

PRICE: Offers over £75,000

GRIMSBY

6/7, Aspen Court

98, Freeman Street

* Refurbished office premises * Approx 67.6 sqm/727 sqft NUFA basis * New lease available, suit alternative uses * EPC Rating D

* Lock-up shop approx. 500 sqft/46.48 sqm * Lock-up shop premises, Approx. 1,236s q ft/115 sqm, plus first * First floor 1 bedroomed flat over floor sales approx. 76 sqm/819 sqft * Attractive investment premises held on modern long ground leases * 2nd Floor ancillaries, WCs, approx. 51 sqm/548 sqft, EPC Rating E * EPC Rating Retail C/ Flat G * Potential to use upper floors for residential flats, subject to consents

TO LET

RENT £6,000 p.a.

FOR SALE

PRICE £65,000

100-102, Freeman Street FOR SALE

PRICE £80,000

LINCOLNSHIRE’S LEADING ESTATE AGENCY GROUP

NEW SHOWROOM: One of the 1,200 sq ft units has been retained by JW Plater for additional display space to that already in use in the base across Charlton Street.

Civic Trust Awards deadline nears THE deadline for online applications for the 2017 Civic Trust Awards is nearing. The scheme was established in 1959 to recognise the very best in architecture, design, planning, landscape and public art. It now encompasses Pro-Tem Awards – for temporary projects

and installations – and the CTA AABC Conservation Awards. Awards are given to projects that demonstrate high quality, where sustainability and accessibility is demonstrated for all users and they make a positive cultural, social or economic contribution.

As the longest standing built environment awards scheme in Europe, during the last 57 years, more than 6,500 projects have been rewarded and the scheme has continued in its objective to recognise projects that have made a positive contribution to the local communities

they serve. There is a full 2017 Application Guide, including step-by-step instructions on how to compile an online entry. For more information visit www.civictrust awards.org.uk/apply. The deadline is Friday, July 29.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Commercial Property

Continuity call after reshuffle

Serving the Region! s Business & Commerce Workshop/Warehouse Accommodation Available Mid October 2016

Established Scooter/Motorcycle Business With Workshop MOT Station & Forecourt

NEW TO MARKET

NEW TOT MARKE Cleethorpes Barcroft St £110,000

Grimsby - Eastgate £6,200 Per Annum

An excellent opportunity to occupy a one of two or both, centrally located workshops/warehouse! s that would easily lend themselves to various trade counter users, subject to the appropriate planning consents, of between 1,020 sq ft (94.8 sq m) & 1,376 sq ft (127.9 sq m), including a mezzanine of 352 sq ft (32.7 sq m). The units are of modern steel portal frame with the benefit of a loading facility and customer car parking, easy links to the A180 and national motorway networks. Available on negotiable terms from mid October 2016 at an asking rent of £6,200 Per Annum

WILL BE MISSED: Brandon Lewis, centre, visits a site development. Inset, Greg Clark, and below, Gavin Barwell and Chris Carr.

LEADING local figure behind Britain’s housebuilding strategy has made a call for continuity following the cabinet reshuffle. With the change in occupant at one of the country’s most famous addresses coming earlier than anticipated, Prime Minister Theresa May’s new-look Government is now getting up to speed. Cleethorpes builder Chris Carr holds an influential role when it comes to the business of bricks and mortar. He is chair of the Federation of Master Builders’ Home Builders Group, the largest construction trade organisation in the UK, made up of representation from 10 major construction companies and two SMEs. In the coming weeks he anticipates meeting with the new Housing and Planning Minister, Gavin Barwell, having relished the time under his predecessor Brandon Lewis. Mr Carr, who together with brother Dave runs Carr & Carr Ltd, and also sits as chairman of Grimsby District Builders’ Association, said: “My main concern now is continuity. We just want to see continuity, if not in personnel then in attitude and direction. We’re not daft, we know the main thing is the civil servants, ministers come and go, but we do have a great relationship with civil servants, but clearly policy is set by the politicians. “Brandon Lewis as Housing and Planning Minister has been crucial to get the housing market back where it was pre-recession, finding innovative ways to help the SME sector. He has been brilliant. He understood what was required, how to make the market more desirable for developers. I am not surprised he has earned a promotion. “We have dealt with three planning ministers in seven years, and he has been the one

that really understands the game, and how we work.” Mr Lewis, the MP for Great Yarmouth, has been appointed Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service. Croydon Central MP Mr

My main concern now is continuity. We just want to see continuity, if not in personnel then in attitude and direction Chris Carr Barwell previously served as a Government Whip and Controller of HM Household. He will also have ministerial duties for London, working with Mayor Sadiq Khan. And it could be that he gets an open invite to come and see work close up in northern Lincolnshire. Mr Carr said: “We have had

housing ministers and other key figures come in to look at building sites. Some have never worked on building sites, and never been on one. It is valuable. We have done it before with Cyden Homes and Keigar.” And he believes there is a clear desire to prioritise the housing agenda. “This Government really wants to do this, there has been a massive difference in the 10 years I have been doing this. We have seen simpler planning, better access to finance, and it really helps.” While not evident from the weekly highlight of PMQs, Mr Carr believes there is a far more cohesive approach than people think. All three main political parties addressed the FMB’s 75th anniversary event, just hours before Mrs May visited the Queen and was invited to form a Government. Mr Carr was there, and said: “It was good to hear from all three. What I am hearing from everybody is that with the Brexit thing happening, an attitude of ‘let’s pull together stop bickering between parties and get the country running properly’. There seems to be a case of ‘we now need to work together’.”

An excellent opportunity to acquire a highly visable established, profitable scooter and motorcycle business set within a purpose built two storey premises, comprising two showrooms, parts and accessories sales counter, fully equipped MOT station and workshop facility, office, staff facilities and forecourt located close to the busy thoroughfare of Grimsby Road Cleethorpes. Available For sale with offers in the region of £110,000, accounts upon request - alternatively a letting may be given consideration to at a rent to be agreed. Equipment, F&F and SAV by way of separate negotiation.

Centrally Located Office/ Centrally Located Prominent Corner Retail/ Retail Space - Available Office Accommodation/ Warehouse Accommodation September 2016 Flexible Terms Excellent Development Opportunity S NEW INCLUDEG NEW TOT IN K R E A K P R P A RICE M Grimsby - Hainton Ave £5,500 Per Annum

Grimsby - Kent Street £3,950 Per Annum

Immingham - Kings Rd £79,000

Prominent ground floor, centrally located office accommodation set within a busy mixed use shopping parade fronting Hainton Avenue, within close proximity to Grimsby town centre of 720sq ft (66.9 sq m). With numerous high street and local traders close by, would suit various occupiers, subject to the appropriate planning consents. Available September 2016 on a new FRI lease with negotiable terms at an asking rent of £5,500 per annum.

Centrally located, newly refurbished first floor office accommodation located on Kent Street, close to the junctions of Freeman Street & Cleethorpe Road Grimsby with easy access to Grimsby fishing ports & the A180. The accommodation provides self contained office! s along with staff & secure car parking facilities with an area totalling 1,202 sq ft (111.7 sq m). Available To Let either as the first floor in its entirety at an annual rent of £3,950 or on a room by room basis with negotiation rents & easy in easy out terms.

Prominent corner two storey retail/warehouse premises with excellent development potential of approximately 1599 sq ft (148.6 sq m), located on the portsides busy thoroughfare of kings Road with direct links to the A180. The accommodation is situated within a mixed use location of traders and residential occupiers alike, although would be suitable for various uses , subject to the appropriate consents. Available For Sale with offers in the region of £79,000.

Various Garages/Lock Extensive Former Public House Newly Refurbished Ups Available To Let with Various Commercial & Retail/Office Units On Flexible Terms Residential Consents Available Summer 2016

NEW PRICE

Grimsby - Various From £5 Per Week

Luddington - High St £90,000

A variety of brick built lock up garages and store/lock up facilities situated with various central Grimsby locations and within easy access to all main thoroughfares and the A180 motorway network. Available to let on short and long term agreements at competitive rents and possible incentives. Suitable for vehicular and various other storage uses. Available with rents from £5 per week.

An extensive former public house on a site of approximately 0.83 acres, located on the B1392 within the heart of the picturesque rural village of Luddington North Lincolnshire, lying between the towns of Scunthorpe and Goole that has undergone part conversion to the ground and upper floors, providing a two bedroomed apartment with space for a further residential dwelling to the first floor. An excellent development project with various commercial planning consents to the ground floor, including A3 and A5 use. The property is available for sale with an asking price £90,000.

Grimsby - Units 1- 4 Hainton House £6,000/£8,400 Per Annum

The newly refurbished retail/office units of between 960/1344 sq ft (89.3/124.9 sq m) will provide, modern single storey accommodation fitted to high specification at shell finish including; loading facility to the rear of the premises with the shop front facing Hainton Avenue, close to the busy junctions of Freeman Street and Frederick Ellis Way Grimsby - scheduled for completion summer 2016. (Artist! s impression and final specification may be subject to change). Available To Let on an FRI lease for a term to be agreed with starting rents of between £6,000/£8,400 per annum.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Commercial Property

Health comes into planning

LAISTER’S Last Word BY DAVE LAISTER

Just a quiet summer month, nothing to report ‘DO I NOT LIKE ORANGE’: Contrary to my initial belief from rolling news coverage, Amber Rudd wasn’t forced to change when she was given the Home Secretary role. It was library footage recycled from when she took the Energy Secretary role back in May 2015. Below, Andrew Percy, right, with predecessor James Wharton at a road naming in Goole in February.

ORTH Lincolnshire Council looks set to agree new health guidelines that developers must consider before submitting their plans to the council.

“Developing strong, healthy and vibrant communities is vital to ensuring the wellbeing of the people of North Lincolnshire. We want to ‘design in health’ like we aim to ‘design out crime’. “Since public health moved to the council The new measures are targeting North in 2013, we are now in a prime position to Lincolnshire’s growing obesity levels, simultaneously influence health, housing, aimed at ensuring that transport and people have greater regeneration, to improve choices to lead a healthier our area for everyone who lifestyle. lives and works here.” Developers would need The Planning for Health to demonstrate to and Wellbeing planners that they have supplementary planning considered health document (SPD) has been implications at the design written collaboratively by stage of their development senior planning and public as part of the planning health staff at the council. process. The aim is to ensure Councillor Rob places are well designed so Waltham, deputy leader of that healthier choices are North Lincolnshire easier. Council said: “We need to While SPDs do not have offer people greater health the status of the statutory choices. Developers can development plan, they do play a key role by have material weight in ensuring their new the consideration of development has the right planning applications. balance to help people It sets the basis for lead a healthier lifestyle. discussions at “It is crucial that pre-application stage; HEALTH GUIDELINES: Councillor ensuring health is an early opportunities exist for Rob Waltham people to make healthier consideration in the lifestyle choices. There is planning process. It is overwhelming evidence to show that poor intended to be used by planners, developers environments contribute significantly to and investors in both smaller developments and larger regeneration projects. poor health and health inequalities.

...as Lincolnshire Lakes passes its fitness test

WORK is expected to start later this year on the building of the first phase of new homes as part of the £1.3 billion Lincolnshire Lakes development. Located to the west of the M181, it will create 5,000 jobs, and is believed to be the largest residential led regeneration scheme in the north of England – with six new villages featuring 7,739 new homes covering 5,100 acres of land. Scunthorpe United’s new

stadium is part of the project, so too a new business park and leisure facilities including a number of recreational lakes, artificial beaches, as well as shopping centres, schools, cafes, pubs, hotels, and restaurants. Plans also include major improvements to the existing roads, including two new junctions, which will help reduce congestion in busy areas. KMG Lucent Fund is being the first phase applications, with Maltgrade Ltd’s proposal to be considered on July 27. The £13 million flood defence scheme will provide continuous piling of the eastern side of the River Trent between the M180 and Keadby Bridge.

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They say a week is a long time in politics, so how about a month in this crazy year of 2016?

stats: 58,915 (66 per cent) to 29,947. The same was happening up and down the country, stopping bluntly As Business Telegraph last at Hadrian’s Wall and the M25. whirred off the printing presses, in At 4.30am, our parliamentary or out of Europe was still in our writer Patrick Daly, covering the hands, still very much in Roy national count in Manchester Hodgson’s hands, David Cameron reported; “Farage hasn’t just was leading the country and ‘unconceded’ – he’s being Jeremy Corbyn appeared to have the backing of his shadow cabinet. broadcast on every TV in the Great Hall giving a speech about how As the edition was read in today is “Independence Day”. Grimsby on the Tuesday, we were Unpredictable seems barely scant still coming to terms with what a enough to describe what is dour draw with Slovakia meant for happening.” England’s chances in France, and But little did we know the extent Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom were presenting a of what this EU exit would bring. Cameron gone, Johnson out of united front on the Brexit argument, the running, Gove out of the not that I had any feeling for quite cabinet, the Chancellor gone, the level of support the stance Corbyn isolated in Westminster but would have across the nation. apparently still adored in the I was at Global Offshore Wind in Manchester, as new RenewableUK constituencies. Andrea Leadsom was suddenly in chief executive Hugh McNeal the running after a stellar TV outlined a bright future for the debate, but overwhelming support industry in or out of Europe, going on to reveal how he played a role in for Theresa May, and some ill-thought comments about the Whitehall team that helped bring Siemens to the Humber. children, seemed to scupper that. I Earlier an executive had presented remember Nick Clegg doing well on to the industry, telling how the the telly too, while some in future capacity at Greenport Hull will be may do well to remember him at all. high enough to deal in international We’re clearly going to remember exports too. Corbyn though, significantly Then as our Scunthorpe readers because he isn’t going anywhere, bought a copy, potentially after anytime soon. And while I don’t casting their vote, the pound was agree Prime Ministers need soaring in strength as the City mandates as we vote for parties anticipated a remain. That night, as and local representation, despite I went to bed, Nigel Farage was what the national media would have starting on his “we gave it our best us believe, he certainly has one. shot” speech. I, and he, should Leadsom, who I interviewed have known better than to trust the briefly when she met businesses in polls. Cleethorpes ahead of opening At 2.51am on Friday morning. My E.on’s Humber Gateway offshore little boy woke up crying. I don’t wind farm last summer, certainly think it was a prophetic view of his didn’t strike me as being the next future, but I glanced at my phone as PM. There was no aura or sense of the result came in from Grimsby gravitas. Auditorium, while my phenomenal wife gave Tom the assurance he needed. I don’t think it involved “yes we can still go back to Menorca, no we don’t have to make do with wet weekends,” but he was soon content enough. North East Lincolnshire chief executive Rob Walsh had returned an overwhelming 70 per cent “leave” vote, with 55,185 to 23,797. By 4.16am Simon Driver was on his feet down the A180. Despite pleas by steel unions to remain, Scunthorpe, and the wider North Lincolnshire also voted out, in THRILLED: Greg Clark similarly resounding fashion. The

Her stepping aside didn’t help Angela Eagle’s Labour leadership bid though as the hacks headed off for May’s coronation rather than listening to her plans. Having seen the pink-infused banners as she awaited questions on her campaign that never came, I just hope the pink bus stays firmly parked behind that “Edstone” in a non-descript lock-up somewhere when the battle begins. So, to the dramatic shuffle. Enough has been written about Boris already. We may now see him at Immingham one day, but there were more pressing portfolios to follow. Amber Rudd left energy, and her hi viz jacket in Number 10 if BBC’s rolling Downing Street coverage was all it cracked up to be. Was she told “no more power station visits” by the PM?! Actually, it was library footage from her first “job interview” back in May last year, interwoven into that day’s feed. So now an enlarged role for Greg Clark, an elevation that has got to be welcomed, as he takes on I had the pleasure of enjoying lunch with him last year, and he didn’t just come to speak, but to listen and learn too. “I am thrilled to have been appointed to lead this new department charged with delivering a comprehensive industrial strategy, leading government’s relationship with business, furthering our world-class science base, delivering affordable, clean energy and tackling climate change,” he said of his new role. An important last eight words for the Energy Estuary. It is a popular move on the patch. Let’s hope he delivers as he did the Humber Growth Deal. Great also to see Brigg & Goole MP Andrew Percy tasked with the Northern Powerhouse remit in Sajid Javid’s new DCLG department, which was inherited from Mr Clark. I look forward to seeing that develop. As for the woeful football, apparently my maternal great grandfather was Welsh, and Iceland is a close ally to the Humber. I’ve definitely got the ambassador’s business card somewhere and they must need someone to pass the World Seafood Congress baton over ahead of Reykjavik 2017... It doesn’t matter anyway, midweek cricket is in glorious full swing and there’s a compelling test series on the telly.