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South Wales commercial and domestic cleaning company Lady Muck Cleaning has appointed Kath Hiscock as its commercial director. Kath comes to the new role at the Tredomen


Business Park, Hengoed, based business from UHY Peacheys where she was payroll manager at their Newport branch having playedamajor role in helping expand that business. Kath, from Caerphilly, who has become a


share holder in the business, says she has joined Tredomen-based Lady Muck with the express intention of helping grow the quickly expanding business. Lady Muck sales and marketing director Ross


Porter said: “We’re all delighted to have attracted aprofessional of Kath’s calibre and reputation to join our business. Kath comes to the business at a very exciting time as we continue to see growth in revenue week on week. “We are avery ambitious business and Kath’s determination and drive is therefore aperfect match with our company ethos and mission.”


Kath said: “My financial background gives me


the ability to analyse and develop the business strategy from afinancial perspective, along with the connections Ihave made in the South Wales business arena Ifeel that Ican play an integral role in the future success of the business. “As ashareholder Iamexcited tabout my new


role as the business model is unique and ambitious, much like myself. “The prospect of working with Claire and Ross


Porter, who have proven themselves in business previously, was an opportunity not to be missed. The long term goals of the business aroused my interest during our many conversations regarding the position. “From the outset the business had in place a


strategy to develop in to asuccessful franchise model with the aim to make the firm ahousehold name.” Kath is afounder member of IAmWoman,


Cardiff and says she enjoys sharing knowledge and experience with other women in business.


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elly fish in their thousands were no match for adoughty team of five which conquered the English Channel to raise funds for St David's Hospice Care.


The swimmers, lead by intrepid Gwent


accountant Gary Parker, completed the gruelling 21 miles (32 kms) Dover to Calais swim in arespectable 16hrs, 21 mins. They are now on target to raise £20,000 for the charity. The five swam in relay each spending an


hour in the water at atime. Gary, of Parker&CoAccountants, Newport,


said: “So we spent three hours in total except for Kara Williams, who did four, and Dawn Lea was lucky to get the last leg lasting 21 minutes and landing in France.” He said: “We’re absolutely elated at what


we have achieved both for ourselves in terms of completing the challenge and also for St David’s Hospice Care. “The conditions weren’t great. We were all


sea sick, the tankers and cross Channel ferries were daunting but perhaps worst of all were the huge shoals of stinging jelly fish which caused us anumber of problems.” Gary said he was extremely proud of the


team and the training they had all put in to achieve success. “Swimming the English Channel is a


massive challenge, make no mistake about that, and it is avery long way to swim but we knew we had agood team and that we had done the training required to get over as a team.”


Would he do it again? He said: “Yes of course -not so sure about


the girls though. They had some nasty incidents with the jelly fish and Iwas lucky to escape them.” St David’s Hospice Care Director of


Fundraising and Lottery Kris Broome said: “This is atruly fantastic achievement from the team. “We can’t thank them enough for all the


effort that they have put in over the weeks and months to prepare for the challenge and to have


been able to raise so much from their efforts for St David’s.” The St David’s Hospice Care English


Channel relay team were: Gary Parker, Kath Lewis, of IAC; Kara Williams, of Ellis Lloyd Jones, who started the relay, Dawn Lee, of Virgin Active Health Club, who finished the relay and Keith Leslie, environmental health officer, Forest of Dean District Council. For more details on how to sponsor the


swimmers now they have completed their challenge contact klewis@iac-ltd.co.uk or kris.broome@stdavidshospicecare.org •The team will be officially congratulated on their achievement tomorrow when Parker&Co have the official opening of their new offices in Newport by global adventurer Rose Swale- Pope.


Top: Gary Parker mid swim Above: Ice cold in Calais: (left to right) Gary Parker, Dawn Lee, Kara Williams, Kath Lewis and Keith Leslie enjoy adrink in France after completing their epic English Channel relay swim


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