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Here’s the job ad we currently have up at the local job centre (talk about old skool): * Job Title: * SKILLED/SEMI SKILLED SHEET METAL WORKER * COF/17807 Location: COLNE Hours: 38 PER WEEK, 8.30AM – 4.30PM, MONDAY – FRIDAY Wage: COMPETITIVE RATES OF PAY Work Pattern: Days Employer: Butler Sheet metal Ltd Pension: No [...]

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Head’s Up in the Long Drop

Posted on 25, Jul

Is there anything worse than attending the lavatory to find a full load deposited all over the porcelain and floor? Perhaps yes and no, but that’s what greeted John this morning when he arrived at Butler Sheetmetal HQ. For reasons still under investigation, a part of the bog roof had collapsed. (library pictures of nasty [...]

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Corus of Disapproval

Posted on 21, Jul

As the following article quotes: THEIR homes have been showered with glitter, their noses assaulted by an eggy smell and their sleep constantly disturbed by loud noises. Life in the shadow of the steelworks in Port Talbot has been a problem for residents for decades, but they say this summer it is getting worse. The [...]

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I must admit that I was slightly taken aback as the radio just announced a level 3 heat-health warning and that it was just below level 4 (obviously) which would send us hurtling into national emergency territory. Apparently troop mobilisation is only a couple of days away – so long as they aren’t pole-axed by [...]

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Cheeky Metal Monkeys

Posted on 30, Jun

Not a million and one moons ago I went over to Todmorden to take a few pictures of the stainless steel planters we manufactured and installed for the town’s civic planting society (y’know – those groups who put flowers everywhere to make a place look nice), Todmorden in Bloom. We originally did six 1mtr cubed [...]

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