2015 News
Daniel Hall is a former Red who is in the pink after being made the new Lanes Group Regional Manager in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Daniel, once a player with Manchester United, has taken over from Eddie Roughley, who has retired from the depot’s top job after leading the Lanes team on Tyneside for 14 years. He says…
Lanes Group has helped Salford become the UK’s first Heart Safe City – with life-saving defibrillators in every one of its 97 schools. The company, which has HQ offices and an operational depot in Eccles, Salford, has paid for eight staff to be trained how to use a defibrillator at their primary school. More than…
Lanes Group is working with Bolton Council to survey thousands of metres of culvert across the town as part of a programme to minimise the risk of flooding. The drainage company is carrying out a programme of work to provide detailed CCTV drainage surveys of culverts that pose the highest flood risk. The work is…
Lanes Group has completed urgent drainage pipe renewal work at England’s oldest inn – and did it in double quick time so its chef could reopen the kitchen in time for the weekend. The fault at the Old Ferry Boat, near St Ives, Cambridgeshire, which dates back to the early Middle Ages, was identified during…
Ambulance chiefs have praised two Lanes Group drainage engineers after they used their water jetting hose to tackle a fire that broke out in an ambulance as it responded to a 999 call. Paul Sheehy and Gavin McDonald had been returning to the Lanes Eccles depot after unblocking a drain when they passed the ambulance…
