Thanks for Feedback
Quite a few people responded to my invitation and e-mailed back to say what they thought of the re-vamped website – and not all of the e-mails were complimentary! One of my daughters said it was “awful” and this was re-echoed by my brother Denis, who added his own thoughts on how the site should look. Neh mind, eh! I had some very useful feedback from Andrew Murray at PCM Technologies, from Julie Brown, Fiona Maxwell, Mike Campbell and Mike Dickinson and to these I am indebted.
Not only useful but USABLE feedback. Websites are never static, and already you will have noticed one or two basic changes. Not the least of these is the alteration in the size of many of the images in the Gallery, etc. the “thumbnails’ have been reduced in size to little more than a few kilobytes, while the bigger (and clearer) images behind them have had (or are having) their kilobytage rationed also, while trying to maintain some basic detail and clarity.
Keep the e-mails coming!
Chris McAllister

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Tara Agnew

Congratulations
To all those candidates whose certificates have come through recently. I begin with those who have gained more than one certificate.
Brian Colebrook from Whitehaven, who is Training Officer for PCL Properties in that town recently achieved not only his Internal Verifier Unit (V1) but also NVQ Level 3 in Training and Development. Well Done, Brian.

Robert Dodd

Julie Brown and also Helen Brown (no relation) have achieved NVQ Level 4, while yet another Brown (Bill Brown, again no relation) and Tara Agnew have achieved Learning and Development Level 5. Bill is a consultant with the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) while Tara is Training Manager at Didcot A and B coal-fired power stations in Oxfordshire.
10 firefighters who are based at Glasgow Airport have achieved NVQ Level 3 in Direct Training and Support. The to-be-congratulated firefighters and trainers are: Peter McKay, James Richmond, Tommy Ball, Michael Campbell, David Harper, Colin Campbell, Colin Anderson, Scott Andrews, Kenny Hollinsworth and Roger Harman. To their names we should also add Mark Bruce from Story Construction in Carlisle and Stuart and Richard Dodd from Grange Quarry, near Lockerbie.
Congratulations especially to the Staff Nurses at Yorkhill Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow all of whom have recently gained their A1 Assessor Unit; Shona McGinness, Alison Kren Bissland, Bernadette Ramsay, Lesley Bannatyne, Kristeen Barrie, Sharon Ramsay, Joanna Tannock, Susan McMahon and Moira Lynch. To these must be added Dylan Roberts, Don Smith, Kevin Stuart, Nigel Armstrong, Tommy McLatchie, Matt Reid and Don Mackay, all from Ken Hope Limited in Carlisle, Philip Turner, Eddie Murphy, Philip McGenn, Ray Ronson and Mark Hammond from Cumbria Contract Services in Penrith, Ferris Blackwood, Malcolm Tingey and Ross Steel also from Carlisle and Neil Duncan from Albion Environmental in Ayr. Also to be congratulated Alasdair Meldrum, the boss of Albion Environmental on recently gaining his V1 Internal Verifier award.
Chris McAllister