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Pitchcare and Wiedenmann Fantasy Football winners 2014/15 Season
The 2014/15 Premier League season has come to an end, and so comes the one time of the year our cheque book comes out of the drawer! Congratulations to all those who finished in the prize winning spots.
Last season’s winner, Gareth Yandell, finishes in 5th, whilst 7th place Mike Sage marched to the top of the table and claimed the 2014/15 championship crown.
With over seventy employees at Pitchcare, we are seemingly very bad at winning any prizes in our own competitions. This year, Technical Manager James Grundy finished highest with “Mister Sergio’s” in 18th place. Self proclaimed football guru, fantasy veteran, and sales team member
Kiran Contractor finished 113th, to the delight of many of his customers.
Congratulations to all our winners!
1st £300 Mike Sage “Baines on toast!”
2nd £150 Gavin Barnes “Epic Failures”
3rd £100 Goldwyn Bird “Cammer Booez”
4th £50 Chris Furneaux “Disco Argyle FC”
5th £40 Gareth Yandell “Thatchers”
6th £30 Chris Lynch “Leavemyarcelona”
7th £25 Andy Weeks " “Ain't got a kalou”
Iron flat out ...
Scunthorpe United’s stadium plans get the green light from council
Scunthorpe United (SUFC) has been granted planning permission from North Lincolnshire Council for a new £18m stadium.
The 12,000-seater stadium will be developed as part of the mixed-use Lincolnshire Lakes project and will include 3,500 new houses, a commercial park, a school and a transport hub.
Scunthorpe’s chairman, Peter Swann, is keen to provide the club with a new home and move the club from its current 9,000- capacity Glanford Park.
The move is expected to take place in July 2016, and Swann anticipates a “busy and exciting 14 months” as the club prepares for the “dawn of a new era”, adding that securing agreements to lease the commercial space at the stadium will be key to the project’s success.
“The stadium is a dream for me and hopefully it's something the fans will buy into,” he said. “We’re going to be in a place where revenue streams are going to be
BASIS Points for Pitchcare Mag
*BASIS awards two CPD points for ‘paid for’ subscribers to the hard copy version of Pitchcare magazine, due to the “diverse range of content that relates to the control, management and use of pesticides”.
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Subscribers can now obtain a further two valuable CPD points for their Professional register, simply by paying for a subscription to the ‘hard copy’ version of the Pitchcare magazine.
Anyone wishing to claim their points should email their full name, BASIS membership number, date of birth and postcode to
editor@pitchcare.com.
*BASIS is an independent standards setting and auditing organisation for the pesticide, fertiliser and allied industries.
higher and we are quite advanced with deals to fill out the space.”
“I’m pretty confident that, when we open, all the space will be leased. That will help finish off the financing of it.”
“We can bring all our footballing teams - youth, reserve, first team - and also the community set-up together in one place and we’re very much looking forward to that.”
Additional cash prize winners and ‘manager of the month’ winners (each of whom are eligible for Helly Hansen clothing from the workwear range) can be found on the Pitchcare website.
Pitchcare would like to express thanks to this season’s sponsors, Wiedenmann (UK) Ltd., and to all who participated.
Details for the 2015/2016 Fantasy Football competition will be available online at
www.pitchcare.com in the coming weeks.
Harlequins need
tackling!
Harlequin ladybirds declared UK’s fastest invading species
Harlequin ladybirds have been declared the UK’s fastest invading species after reaching almost every corner of the country in just a decade.
The cannibalistic ladybirds were first identified to have reached the UK in 2004, when they were seen in Essex, and have since spread as far afield as the tip of Cornwall and the Shetland Islands, making it the fastest alien invasion of the UK on record. Grey squirrels, American mink, ring-necked parakeets and muntjac deer are advancing at a rate far behind them.
Scientists monitoring the spread of the voracious harlequin, which will prey on native ladybirds, said the warnings when it first arrived, that it would colonise the country rapidly and was the world’s “most invasive ladybird”, have proven correct.
Dr Helen Roy, of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, said a decade of sightings, recorded by the public as part of the UK Ladybird Survey since 2005, have revealed just how far and fast the harlequin has spread.
While sightings of harlequins (Harmonia axyridis) in Scotland are much less common than in England and Wales, it has colonised much of the south and has been spotted, though probably hasn’t established over- wintering populations, on the north coast and the Shetland Islands.
The species is believed to be responsible for the decline of at least seven native ladybirds, including the popular two-spot which, when last assessed in 2012, had slumped 44%. Dr Roy said that there has been no sign of a recovery among two-spots.
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