Community News

Lanes team to showcase services at NE water and sewerage event

24/10/2014

A team from Lanes Group will be showcasing their drainage services and unrivalled expertise at the Water Sewerage and Waste Magazine exhibition being held in Durham on November 13. The event at the Ramside Hall Hotel, in Carville, is expected to attract many leading figures and suppliers in the water and sewerage industry. Lanes Group…

Lanes cross connection search solves pollution problem in hidden river

24/10/2014

Lanes Group drainage engineers have helped solve a pollution problem in one of the UK’s most famous rivers where it was hidden from view under a shopping centre. They were called in to search for the source of raw sewage coming from a surface water drain after it was spotted by construction workers. The sewage…

Beans means Lanes for hotel charity fundraiser

01/07/2014

Lanes engineers have put their jet vacuumation technology to a very special use – emptying a ‘bath of baked beans’. They vacuumed up the beans at the Holiday Inn Warrington on Thursday (June 19) after General Manager Anthony Milligan had spent the whole day sitting in them in the hotel foyer. He raised over £500…

Lanes backs four women in African bike challenge

08/10/2013

Lanes Group is sponsoring four intrepid women who are cycling across Tanzania in Africa to raise money for cancer care. One of the women is Jacky Godfrey, whose husband, Ian, died from cancer in 2010. Jacky and her sister, Christine Humberstone, plus two close friends, Philippa McDowell and Shirley Foster, have now joined a charity…

Lanes for Drains saves Christmas!

18/02/2013

Kim Ulmer and her family say they have their local Lanes for Drains depot to thank for saving their Christmas. The family lives close to the Lanes for Drains St Neots depot, in Eaton Socon, which provides drain blockage and drain repair services across the East Anglia region. A week before Christmas, the water in…