In Brief: Refurbishment for Yearsley Group; Legal community joins forces for charity; and more
COLD storage and distribution provider Yearsley Group has appointed Russells Construction to carry out a refurbishment at its Grimsby depot.
The £445,000 contract will see the installation of a new 63,000 sq ft superflat, insulated concrete floor.
With a £130m turnover, Heywood-based Yearsley Group has 12 sites across the UK and has instructed Russells Construction to complete a number of contracts around the country over recent years, including a new 100,000 sq/ft cold store in the north east town of Seaham and works to its Birmingham and Gillingham stores.
Harry Yearsley, managing director of Yearsley Group, said: “Having worked with Russells Construction before, we know they will ensure minimum disruption to our working procedures at Grimsby.”
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SHEFFIELD’S legal community swapped their pin-stripes for fancy dress on a sponsored walk through the city which raised £1,000 for charity.
Solicitors and legal staff from law firms across the city came together to raise funds for the North East Legal Support Trust.
The trust gives financial support to charities and advice agencies that help to improve access to justice for disadvantaged people.
Key sponsors of the event were the Sheffield office of Kennedys, Irwin Mitchell, the College of Law and BPP Law School.
Walkers, in costumes ranging from prison inmates to rock stars, completed an 8.5km circuit which started at the Combined Court Centre.
Three other walks were also held simultaneously in Leeds, York and Newcastle.
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FROM the history of a brand of tea to surveying the bee, it has been a varied summer for a dozen University of York students who have been working as interns with two North Yorkshire-based employers.
Harrogate-based Bettys and Taylors and the Food and Environmental Research Agency (FERA) at Sandhutton each hosted six students recruited through the University’s Student Internship Bureau.
Interns at Bettys & Taylors were involved in a range of tasks, including cataloguing the history of the Yorkshire Tea brand, organising events for the Great Yorkshire Show and researching sustainable tea buying and African development.
Students at FERA managed survey work for the National Bee Unit and helped to introduce a handheld bar coding device for managing the thousands of samples the agency gathers each year.
Andrew Ferguson, of the university’s careers service, said: “The Student Internship Bureau is an excellent way for businesses to interact with the university and enables our students to show what a great contribution they can make to the local economy.”
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