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Daffy ducks see light of day in drain rescue drama

23/12/2015

Drainage engineers from Lanes Group have helped a farmer and his family rescue a flock of daffy ducks after they disappeared down a drain. Hywel Williams and his wife, Jackie, bought the four ducks as family pets, and to supply the odd egg for the table. But as soon as they got the birds back…

Lanes Group takes road safety lead with vehicle camera system

23/12/2015

Lanes Group has invested £200,000 installing one of the UK’s most advanced camera systems on lorries to help drivers set the highest possible road safety standards – especially for protecting cyclists and pedestrians. The cameras have been fitted to 100 HGVs operated by the company’s Utilities Division working on the wastewater network services maintenance contract…

School and community gets emergency heart protection from Lanes

22/12/2015

Lanes Group has presented a heart defibrillator to a West Yorkshire school which was chosen to receive the life-saving device by the company’s staff. The national drainage and maintenance specialist, which has its headquarters in Leeds, has donated the equipment to Pudsey Primrose Hill Primary School. Five members of staff and 30 pupils at the…

Cumbria and Lancashire floods – Lanes helps businesses recover

16/12/2015

Drainage engineers at Lanes Group are preparing to respond to calls for assistance as businesses, homeowners and public agencies begin to clear up after the major floods. There are continuing flood and weather warnings in some areas, but most people hit by the devastating floods are now entering the clean-up and long-term recovery phase of…

The Drain Offenders

09/12/2015

We’ve all been there. It’s Saturday morning and you’ve just devoured a bacon sandwich. You brush the crumbs from your pyjamas and slink over to the hob – it is here that you realise you have a choice to make. Should you:  A) soak up the fat with some kitchen roll and risk getting your…

Lanes Group completes Crossrail drainage replacement project

25/11/2015

Lanes Group Rail Division has completed a project to replace track drainage on the western section of Crossrail. The work involved removal of 200 metres of track drainage and replacing it with new pipework as part of work to upgrade lines incorporated in the Crossrail programme. The Lanes Rail team completed the track drainage renewal,…

Lanes Group completes rehabilitation of distillery pipelines

19/11/2015

Lanes Group has completed a major project to repair and reline pipelines supporting a new biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant and whisky production at four Scottish Speyside distilleries. The work was carried out by the company’s Reline Division during the two-week annual shut-down at the CHP plant and distilleries in Rothes, Moray. Jon…

Lanes breaks its UV reline record on rail project

19/11/2015

Lanes Group has used ultra violet light technology to reline a 1300mm diameter rail culvert – the largest the company has renovated to date using this method to cure the liner. The culvert on the Mole Valley Line at Great Bookham, in Surrey, was 250mm wider than any ultra violet (UV) liner the pipe reline…