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Thomas Hughes, 22, a Volvo Construction Apprentice, based at the Warrington depot, has recently scooped two major awards at the NCC East (National Construction College) Apprentice Awards 2014, held at Bircham Newton last week. He beat 100s of other candidates for the NCC Level 2 Apprentice of the Year and also secured the much coveted overall Apprentice of the Year Award.


Thomas Hughes, wins National Construction College Apprentice of the Year


by Louise Murphy — Press Officer for the CPA


Thomas was nominated by Willie Watson, Volvo’s customer support centre manager at the Warrington Depot, he said, “I am delighted Thomas has won yet another two awards! We were extremely pleased when he won the CPA’s Stars of the Future, level 2 Apprentice Award. But winning the level 2 at the NCC and the overall Apprentice of the Year really is the icing on the cake — this young man is going on to great things!”


Willie continued, “Thomas is a pleasure to manage, he is very keen to learn, constantly questioning the engineers as to why they are doing things, why that particular way and how do they know which area to investigate. Having a real thirst for knowledge and the determination to succeed is a real positive when it comes to developing yourself and these are traits that Thomas regularly demonstrates.


Thomas takes pride in everything he does and is not afraid to challenge when he sees things that are not as they should be. There is no doubt that he will become a very successful engineer with Volvo and has the potential to go very far in the industry in the coming years.”


Thomas’s college lecturer, Ian Maloney at the NCC East said, “I first met Tom two-and-a-half years ago in the subject of Engineering. He stood out amongst his fellow learners as someone who wanted to exceed at everything possible. He got straight into the making of his test piece in order to complete it and gain time to make other items. He puts maximum effort into all his studying, he partici- pates fully in lessons, making welcome interesting contributions to discussions, always asking questions and making comparisons to things he has experienced in his work place. I cannot think of a better deserving candidate for winning these awards — well done Tom!”


The next generation of construction


apprentices are recognised every year at the National Construction College Apprentice Awards — this year a CPA’s (Construction Plant-hire


Association) ‘Stars of the Future’ Award Winner, Thomas Hughes, won the overall Apprentice of the Year at the NCC (East) Awards.


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Thomas said, “To win the CPA’s Stars of the Future level 2 was a shock. I was also named one of the finalists for the national stars of the future award, which in itself is a huge achievement for which I am very proud. Then I went on to win level 2 at the NCC awards and, since there were two other candidates in the running for the award, I had no idea who would win it. After the Stars of the Future awards I was not conscious that I would be nominated for anything else, so it was a complete surprise.


Then came the overall Apprentice of the Year Award — before the winner for the award was announced we heard a speech of why who had won deserves to win. When you hear the things that people have said about the winner and the fantastic compliments you think to yourself ‘nah it’s not me, it can’t be’. Then my name was called! I was astonished and lost for words, my table was ecstatic! It all happened rather fast; afterwards a lot of people were


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