Wardworth has been shortlisted for the Bolton & Bury Business Awards for Customer Excellence.

Gail Hounslea, Managing Director is extremely please with the nomination. "The Wardworth Team are delighted to be nominated in the Customer Excellence Category as we consider customer service to be vitally important to our business and we work hard to listen to our customers and put the customer at the heart of everything we do."

The winners will be announced at a glittering ceremony to be held in the De Vere Whites Hotel at the Reebok Stadium on Thursday June 20th, 2013.

A YORK firm has been hit with a £12,585 court bill after one of its employers crashed through a roof and fell four metres while fitting solar panels at a farm.

A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector said the accident could have killed the worker. He landed on a concrete surface covered in pig waste.

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A ROOFER died after falling off a ladder while repairing a chimney.

Keith Allan Jackson was climbing down from the terrace house roof and was almost at the bottom when he fell to the ground and suffered head injuries

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A Gloucester electrical products manufacturer has been fined for breaking safety legislation after an employee was injured in a fall at work.

Roger Bouskill, 63, from Tuffley, was helping remove redundant plant and equipment at Mekufa (UK) Ltd when the incident happened on 28 March 2012.

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A farmer who cheated death after he plunged 10ft on to a concrete floor while repairing a barn roof believes more must be done to prevent falls from height.

Last week Farmers Weeklyreported how a Hampshire farm manager was fined when a passer-by photographed him lifting two workers in a grain bucket on a telehandler up to a barn roof.

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EIGHT construction firms have been handed enforcement notices as part of a county crackdown by the Health and Safety Executive.

Inspectors visited 32 sites and found eight locations in Northamptonshire did not meet the minimum legal standards for health and safety.

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A seasonal illuminations company in Chesham has been fined for safety failings after an employee broke his arm and lost several teeth when he fell from a ladder.

Ryszard Zolyniak, from Chesham, aged 44 at the time, was fixing bunting outside a supermarket to celebrate the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when the incident occurred at Chesham High Street on 11 April 2011.

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An east Hampshire farm owner has been prosecuted after an untrained worker plunged over four metres from a tree as he was using a chainsaw to prune branches.

The worker, who doesn’t wish to be named, climbed up into a large sycamore tree and used a rope supplied by farm owner Hamish Janson to tie the chainsaw to a branch. He straddled one of the tree limbs and was cutting down branches when he lost his balance and fell.

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A building firm and one of its directors have been sentenced after an employee fell 15 metres to his death in an empty water storage tank in Macclesfield.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Galt Civil Engineering Ltd and Peter Stuart following an investigation into the death of Peter Halligan at Sutton Hall Farm on 14 August 2008.

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A WINDOW fitter plunged 70ft to his death from a top-floor flat as his brother watched helplessly.

The man, in his 30s, was sitting on the window ledge in Inverleith Row when he lost his balance and fell to the ground.

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