HELLO everyone and welcome to my latest monthly column for The Northern Echo. When I look back at these columns over the past year, I’m reminded of the diversity of the kind of assignments we are given at Sparta. Every time the phone rings, something new comes in for us to deal with, and that variety is one of the things I love about running the company. For example, we were recently called in to protect a construction development at Queen Alexandra Bridge, in Sunderland. Our job was to deter people from climbing up the scaffolding and using it as a base to jump into the water below.