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AN organisation has thanked a business after it donated a drone that will help them search for missing people and animals. West Cumbria Missing Person and Animal Search and Rescue was left speechless when a plea to Forth Engineering landed the voluntary organisation a new drone. Chris Davidson, part of the search and rescue team, made a call to Mark Telford from the engineering business on Saturday to enquire about loaning a drone to help with the search for missing nine-month-old Cocker ...

Drone donated to vital West Cumbrian charity Drone donated to West Cumbria Missing Person and Animal Search and Rescue by Mark Telford at Forth Engineering A voluntary organisation has praised a local business after it donated a new drone that will help them search for missing people and animals. West Cumbria Missing Person and Animal Search and Rescue was left speechless when a plea to Forth Engineering landed the voluntary organisation a new drone. Chris Davidson, part of the search and rescu...

STORAGE: Changes are being made to Maryport Inshore Rescue station to make additional room to keep their equipment in. Work is underway at Maryport Inshore Rescue to increase their storage space. They have started to carry out some minor work to the station to allow for more room to house their equipment At the weekend assistance in the work was received from Chambers and Harrison and from Forth Engineering (Cumbria) Ltd. Maryport Inshore Rescue thanked both companies, who gave help and...

The remotely-operated robot was developed by Forth last year as a response to the fight against Covid-19. It has helped several organisations to disinfect, including Gen2 in preparation for the return of students. Mark Telford, managing director of Forth, said: “It was a pleasure to use innovative technology we have developed here in West Cumbria to benefit children in our community. “School teachers and support staff, pupils and parents have all been through a lot over the last 12 ...

SELLAFIELD, in partnership with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Magnox Ltd, have announced the winners of a competition to sort and segregate radioactive waste remotely. On Tuesday it was announced that 14 companies were awarded contracts to come up with innovative approaches to remotely sort and segregate radioactive waste. The ‘Sort and Seg’ innovation competition is worth a total of £3.9m and was launched in July.  It set the challenge of coming up with proposals for ...

Taking care to socially distance, people lined the route of the funeral procession. Colleagues of Malcolm and his daughter Nicola Telford, from Forth Engineering, and the Browton 7+ with their bicycles, stood along the way to Christ Church and spontaneous applause broke out when the funeral car passed by. One of the floral tributes that travelled with Malcolm in the car was a bicycle with Browton 7+ and Mally. Malcolm was instrumental in getting the fundraising group together, back in 198...

Taking care to socially distance, people lined the route of the funeral procession. Colleagues of Malcolm and his daughter Nicola Telford, from Forth Engineering, and the Browton 7+ with their bicycles, stood along the way to Christ Church and spontaneous applause broke out when the funeral car passed by. One of the floral tributes that travelled with Malcolm in the car was a bicycle with Browton 7+ and Mally. Malcolm was instrumental in getting the fundraising group together, back in 198...

4,000 bags of food to ensure no child will go hungry this Christmas in Copeland 15/12/2020 Jordan Mattinson founder of the Copeland Christmas Food Project pictured with friend Beth McGregor and some of the bags of food A staggering 4,000 carrier bags of food have been delivered to ensure no child in a community would go hungry this Christmas. The amazing community effort was started by 27-year-old Jordan Mattinson who wanted to make a positive difference in his community when he heard  in Oc...

A STAGGERING 4,000 carrier bags of food were delivered to ensure no child in a community would go hungry this Christmas. The amazing effort was started by 27-year-old Jordan Mattinson who wanted to make a positive difference in his community when he heard about Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford’s campaign to ensure schoolchildren from low-income families continued to receive free meals in school holidays. Jordan from Whitehaven, who works for Enigma Industrial Services, wante...