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National
acclaim for local Prontaprint team
PRONTAPRINT
centres in Southport, Chorley and Bolton have been crowned the ‘Print
Business of the Year’ at the annual British Association for
Print and Communication awards. The prestigious title was
presented before a competitive line up of print industry
heavyweights at a special awards dinner on Saturday, 3 November
2007, at
the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
Laird Mackay, Prontaprint managing director, comments:- “I am
delighted that Julia and Claire and their teams have been awarded
this extremely impressive accolade and it is certainly well
deserved.
They are the 1st Prontaprint centre to win Print Business
of the Year and have set a high benchmark for the rest of the
network.
This award is especially impressive because it is
based on nominations from fellow print businesses.
It goes to show
that in delivering excellent customer service, you can also earn the
respect of your industry peers. This award recognises the teams’
continued outstanding performance at their centres in Chorley,
Southport and Bolton.”
Claire Bailey, director of Prontaprint Chorley, comments:-
“The Chorley centre has been a family business since it opened in
1983 and part of our ethos has been to deliver nothing but the best
for our customers.
To be recognised by our fellow print suppliers is
certainly a terrific achievement for the team and one of which we
are extremely proud.
Since opening Chorley we’ve expanded with
centres in Southport and more recently Bolton.
The Prontaprint model
is one that’s already been very successful for us and with this
award under our belt I’m sure even more success will come.”
In winning the award, Claire and Julia have also become the 1st
females to be recognised since its inception in 1989.
Chorley Prontaprint was opened by Geoff Bailey 24 years ago along
with eldest daughter Julia and the centre’s success led Geoff to
open a 2nd Prontaprint in Southport 6 years later. In 2000, second
daughter Claire Bailey joined the family operation, taking on the
responsibility for the day to day running of the Chorley centre.
Earlier this year,
sisters Julia and Claire jointly opened a third centre in Bolton.
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Water Mains Renewal Work To Start
WORK on
renewing a water main in Liverpool City Centre will start today
(Monday 12 November 2007).
The work, by United Utilities, to renew 207 metres of Victorian
water main on Dale Street between Stanley Street and the HSBC Bank,
has been programmed to fit in with other schemes taking place in the
city centre.
Earlier this year the water main on North John Street was renewed
and the work on Dale Street would have completed this programme.
However, the work was suspended as a scheme to improve James Street
, which restricted traffic to one way, had started, and it was felt
to have the two schemes at the same time would be too disruptive for
motorists...
Now, work is scheduled to start on 19 November 2007, on a City
Centre Movement Strategy Scheme for improvements to the Castle
Street Corridor, including work at the junction of North John Street
and Dale Street.
So that the water main renewal will not take place after this
scheme, it has been agreed with United Utilities that they should
start on it before the CCMS work begins.
It will mean that there will be a lane closure in Dale Street with
working starting near to the junction of North John Street and
working towards Stanley Street. It is expected to take about six
weeks.
Cllr Mike Storey, Executive Member for Regeneration, said:-
“This work is necessary as we do need our Victorian water mains
replaced. While there will be a lane closure in Dale Street and some
disruption to traffic this is actually a good example of how we try
to coordinate work.
If this work had gone ahead when originally planned it would have
been at the same time as James Street was restricted to one-way
traffic and it would have been a nightmare for drivers. The James
Street scheme is coming to a close so any disruption will be
minimised
Now we are shortly to start work on the junction of North John
Street and Dale Street and we could have had a situation where we
would have done our work and soon afterwards United Utilities would
have come along wanting go dig up the road.
By coordination and cooperation we have avoided this situation and
it makes sense to do the work in this way.”
Letters
To Editor:- "SPACE ALERT when Rosetta appeared to be a threat!"
"AS you have covered the Rosetta
story some time back I thought this odd media alert might be of
interest to you. I was issued over the weekend, about an
impending dangerous asteroid on course for a near miss of Earth was
about to be issued by the Minor Planet Centre. The Royal
Astronomical Society was preparing a special announcement revealing
one of the closest cosmic encounters which would have been one of
the closest shaves with disaster to be recorded. It was spotted,
luckily, at almost the last minute by Denis Denisenko, of Moscow,
who realised that the asteroid's track matched that of the European
comet-chasing spaceprobe 'ESA 5 Rosetta probe', so the alert was
subsequently withdrawn as further information confirmed the
foregoing. The probe is enroute to intercept a comet passing
Jupiter. It will land a 'Lander' on the comet and send back
information about the comet to the European Space Agency. It is
however acknowledged that the Centre does extremely valuable work
detecting various threats to our Earth.
For further details about this alert that was issued to the media we
suggest taking a look at these two links:-
Sky News...
BBC News...
It is very interesting and in a
way frightening that such mistakes can, and are, being made!
PS. Please can we have more
space news as you have not run any for a bit...?" Jim Davy,
Liverpool
Editors note:- "Thanks for the
letter. Very interesting information... As for
your P.S. yes we will be running more space news now the clocks have
gone back... We will let you know when we are running the next
one by email."
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