McCARTHY MARLAND, a leading south west independent waste management company, has this week announced the acquisition of Hughes and Salvidge Holdings Ltd, owner of Aasvogel Skip Hire Ltd and Valley Trading Ltd, in a multi-million-pound deal. The acquisition further signals McCarthy Marland’s expansion plans across the South West and beyond. The move will see McCarthy...
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‘Fandangoe SKIP’ looks good enough to eat
A QUIRKY ice cream kiosk created using a skip – and with a serious message behind its candy colours – has been turning heads in the heart of London. Dubbed the Fandangoe SKIP, the eye-catching container has been created by a talented print artist, Fandangoe Kid, in collaboration with SKIP Gallery, an art duo who...
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Firm converts skip into swimming pool to cool down staff
WITH maximum temperatures soaring to 38 degrees on Teesside yesterday (Tuesday, 19th July), bosses at Scott Bros came up with a novel way to allow staff to cool off! The family-run firm converted one of its skips into a makeshift swimming pool after lining it with plastic sheeting and topping it up with cold water....
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‘Blip your skips’ with Zest Tracking
ZEST TRACKING LTD, in partnership with ‘CTrack’, has launched a battery-powered tracking device for skips or containers that uses long-life power management technology to operate for several years without needing a charge or replacement batteries. The telematics unit provides a simple asset management solution that will enable skip hire businesses in particular to enhance the...
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Skip Tracker: software to keep you on the path to success
WHEN juggling all your assets, a good management system can be the difference between peace of mind and company chaos: missing invoices, lost skips and all. Skip Tracker is an online management system designed to help skip hire companies streamline the way they manage their hires, ultimately saving them time, resources and money. The Skip...
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SunSkips helps tennis ace Ruby on road to glory
SUFFOLK-based SunSkips has served up a ‘champion’ boost towards a teenager’s dream of playing wheelchair tennis at top level. The skip hire business has handed over £5,000 to East Anglia charity GeeWizz, to majority-fund a special wheelchair for a tennis-playing teen with cerebral palsy. Team GB athlete Ruby Bishop, 17, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy...
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Patriotic skip salute for Her Majesty for platinum jubilee
BUDGET Waste Management are feeling super patriotic and getting everyone in the jubilee spirit by commissioning some custom designs for their skips destined for local events in celebration of the occasion. The waste management specialists, based near Evesham in Worcestershire, enlisted the help of local business Alsigns Commercials to help them with their red-white-and-blue-sky thinking....
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Beautiful beach betrothal as Skip Chick says “I two…”
LOVE is in the air at a family-run Norfolk skip hire business after a couple who met at the yard announced their engagement on 22/2/2022. Danny Walsh, 28, transport supervisor at Pips Skips, came up with a clever plan to get his girlfriend Alice Moore away from her desk in the accounts office so he...
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Hair we go for Charlie’s charities
WHEN a devastating health diagnosis turned Charlie Jenkins’ life on its head, he decided it was time to let his hair down. Charlie, 23, whose stepfather, David Hastie runs LMD Skip Hire in South London, let his hair grow and grow… and grow. Now, a year after being left reeling from being told he has...
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SunSkips’ driver Rory gives rescue kitten a ‘purr-fect’ ending
A TINY stowaway kitten was rescued from a potential cat-astrophy thanks to the swift actions of a SunSkips’ driver. Rory Finn heard a faint but distinct ‘meow’ sound coming from under a large pile of cardboard as he worked at SunSkips’ Stowmarket site. “It would have all got picked up by our enormous Sennebogen 360...