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SOLID FOUNDATIONS: Work begins on a new factory in Forge Close LINDSEY DICKINGS REF: 0429157

Building the future
FOURTEEN new factories and work units are springing up beside Walney Channel at a cost of around £2.3m.

Roman blinds are set to conquer. . .
THE owner of Apollo Blinds in Barrow is hoping a new collection of Roman style blinds will be a big hit with the public.

New pipe locking system tried on Ambush
A SYSTEM of join pipes on submarines without costly welding is taking off.

New diploma to help improve building skills
A NEW Construction and the Built Environment diploma will improve the skills of the next generation of Bob the Builders.

Profile

MEETING TIME: Left to right, Tim Harris, chairman of James Fisher and Sons plc, John Hutton MP, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Roger Collinge, Chairman of IoD Cumbria, and Lord Cavendish of Furness, Holker Estates Company Ltd Submitted picture

Barrow can benefit from nuke revival, says Hutton
BUSINESS leaders gathered at Fisher House in Barrow recently for an "evening with John Hutton MP," arranged by the Institute of Directors in the north west. JOHN SIMPSON was there.

New union boss Azza wants yard to stay on an even keel
A POPULAR shipyard trades unionist has been elected the new leader for all the yard’s 1,400 manual workers.

HAPPY WORKFORCE: The publishing department at CGP in Grizebeck

They’ve sold 60 million books
ONE of Furness's most successful frims is based in an old mansion called Eccle Riggs surrounded by lawns and with delicious views of fells and mountains.
JOHN SIMPSON reports.

TAKING A CLOSE LOOK: A glimpse inide the new laboratory

State-of-the-art lab leads the way in nuclear revival
A NEW glass-fronted laboratory complex at Sellafield will have as much to do with building a nuclear future as it will with burying a nuclear past.

Ten Minutes

10 Minutes with . . .
Dave Burns, 41, is a clockmaker, who also has a full-time day job at BAE

10 minutes with Claire Brennan
Claire Brennan, 39, is branch manager of Morson International recruitment agenscy in Barrow

10 minutes with Jonathan Lyons
Jonathan Lyons, 37, is an employment and skills manager for Furness Enterprise

10 minutes with Chris Waddington
CHRIS Waddington, 37, is a mortgage advisor at Face to Face Mortgages