Leicestershire Society News (United Kingdom)

The Editor of LoughboroughLife.com today announced the launch of LoughboroughLife.com forums, offering Loughborough residents the opportunity to connect with one another online.

Felce & Guy, an architect firm based in Brighton & Hove, has installed a disabled lift from specialist supplier movemanSKG in a school in Chicester, Southern England.

Newmarket Racecourses has installed a movemanSKG to allow less able visitors to view horseraces from a raised viewing area.

Petworth Day Centre installed a movemanSKG wheelchair lift so less able visitors could access its premises. It keeps the centre compliant with the new Equality Act, which applies to all publicly accessible buildings.

movemanSKG announces Domuslift, its new flagship platform lift, is now available. The unit is infinitely customisable and suitable for a wide range of applications.

A historic library belonging to Durham University has installed a wheelchair lift to allow disabled visitors and staff to access the building's first floor.

movemanSKG recently installed a disabled lift at Hinxton's Wellcome Trust Conference Centre. It allows less able visitors to reach previously inaccessible parts of the building, and ensures compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).

Gracious Street Church recently spent £1.4m refurbishing its building. movemanSKG installed a Prestige wheelchair lift, which allows less able visitors to access meeting rooms on the first floor.

movemanSKG has supplied a wheelchair lift to Westbury Town Council for use in its headquarters and community centre, which is a Grade II* listed building. The lift provides an access route for less able visitors wishing to access the first floor.

movemanSKG's new Prestige wheelchair lift fully complies with the new Machinery Directive. This means it earns a CE mark, a standard safety requirement in European countries.

QUESTION: One of my employees has failed to turn up to work on a number of occasions due to the recent bad weather. He lives much closer than some of the other employees who have made it in.

With plenty of people regularly in interactive mode, social networking sites have been the grand order of the day. We still have not escaped the clutches of Facebook by a long mile.

Money worries at home are causing more couples to consider getting married abroad to save money, while still having a high quality wedding.