INDUSTRY NEWS Protecting the buyer
While the Christmas holidays are great for relaxing and spending quality timewith family, it’s easy to forget that it’s often a busy period for thieves aswell.With a recent study by shopping site Kelkoo predicting that the average familywill spend nearly £700 on Christmas-related items - including £437 on gifts - it pays to remember that burglars often strike in the festive season, and that you should recommend to your prospective buyers that they protect their propertywith Castle Cover. Developers & housebuilders, alongwith the police, should be encouraging buyers to protect themselves, so to set theirmind at rest,make sure they have adequate home insurance that takes into account the extra valuables thatwill be in their house over the festive period. For more information call 0800 519 40 87 or visit
www.castlecover.co.uk.
Anna Simpson is the 2011
UKWorker of the Year! Anna Simpson from Buxton has been crowned UK Worker of the Year for 2011 in Dickies’ competition to recognise and reward excellence in the British workforce. In the gala awards finale at Marlow’s Crowne Plaza hotel, the Derbyshire charity support worker for the Amber Trust, who provides practical help for adults suffering from mental ill health, picked up the award and a prize package that included the choice of Renault MPV, van or family car. A delighted Anna said of her win: “It’s been absolutely lovely. I’ve met a fantastic bunch of people and to tell you the truth I’m just trying to take it all in. I know it will be life changing and I hope it will boost people doing the sort of work I do who are often the unsung heroes.“ Shrewsbury Town Football Club head chef Paul Crowe took the runner up prize, whilst in third place was North West England Lollipop Lady of the Year Emily Jones. “I was delighted just to have got this far,” commented Emily. “But to come away with an award is fantastic recognition for the Lollipop Service.” Meanwhile, receiving Highly Commended nods were Newport electrician Sam Gibbon, Abingdon AV sales manager Jason Lawrence and Liverpool teacher Jen Whelan. “Choosing a winner from the six finalists we had was an enjoyable but really hard task,” enthuses Maurice Morton, European sales and marketing director for the workwear firm. “The standard of entries was notably higher this year than last and each of our finalists immensely impressed me.” Dickies is proud to announce that it will again be organising UK Worker of the Year in 2012 as part of its commitment to the British market. For more information visit
www.dickiesworkwear.com.
Solution for electrical interference
A significant challenge for utility companies worldwide can be tracing pipes and cables in and around areas of electrical interference such as substations, overhead high-voltage cables and electrified railways. The resulting electrical noise can swamp the sensitive electronics of many devices used to locate underground cables and pipes, which often makes it difficult or even impossible to conduct reliable searches. To meet this challenge, SPX’s Radiodetection developed Dynamic Overload Protection, a powerful signal processing technology that automatically filters out the large stray signals caused by electrical interference. This technology, says SPX, allows location tasks to be carried out with precision even in unfavourable conditions. Dynamic Overload Protection requires no input from the operator, enabling continued tracing operations even in complex environments.With its introduction on the utility-specific RD7000® + Cable and Pipe Locator range, Dynamic Overload Protection is now a standard feature across Radiodetection’s entire range of Precision Cable and Pipe Locators. For more information call 0117 976 7776 or visit www.radiodetection. com/precisionlocate.
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