Community News
It is not just drains that benefit from Lanes’ cleaning skills. Earlier this year, the team was asked to help spring clean the Grand Cascade, a spectacular water feature at The Alnwick Garden, one of the most popular visitor attractions in the UK. The Grand Cascade is the largest water feature of its kind in…
Lanes Group is helping with the continuing development of the UK’s sportsmen and sportswomen. With the London 2012 Olympics being hailed as a huge success and the Paralympics beginning on August 29th, the UK’s largest independent drainage specialist has made a donation to a disabled athletes’ charity. ‘Dream it Believe it Achieve it’ works nationally…
Congratulations to Scott Norris who climbed Jebel Toubkal, Morocco; 4167m over the weekend and raised money for the Lymphoma Association Lanes company charity. To put the achievement in perspective Sca Fell, in the Lake District is 651m, Snowdon in Wales is 1085m and Ben Nevis in Scotland is 1343m. Well Done Scott fantastic achievement!
Lanes’ Tom Earnshaw is an acrophobic. That means he is terrified of heights. So he is the last person you would expect to throw himself off a 300-foot crane, attached only by a piece of elastic. But that is exactly what Tom did, along with five other Lanes for Drains staff. And it was all for a…
Most people have heard of ‘dress down Friday’, when those of us who have to dress smartly for work get to wear casual gear for the day. But at Lanes for Drains Preston, staff members Kirsty and Steph decided they’d like to make their own rules in a fund-raising effort so have agreed on a ‘dress…
Emma Harvie, from Lanes’ out of hours call centre in Manchester, has helped raise over £1000 for Cancer Research after completing the Race for Life for her sister, Louise. Mum of two, Louise, was diagnosed with breast cancer last October aged only 34, yet she completed the 5-kilometre race alongside Emma and their Mum, Patricia….
Today Durham Constabulary boasts a clean and healthy fishpond at its headquarters — thanks to Lanes for Drains, the local fish expert and a full pond ‘makeover’. But the pond, which has been a focal point for the local community since it was built in the early seventies, was not always something to be proud…
Tipping left over fat and grease from the Christmas turkey down the kitchen sink could cause some unwelcome woes this holiday, and the Consumer Council for Water is calling for consumers to think twice before dumping fat, oil or grease down the drain. It is all too easy to simply rinse the fat and oil…
