Crackdown on Crime Launched Youth Theatre Ever to Take Place
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New loolk Manweb's monthly newspaper in store for staff and their families. Pages Vol. 42 No. 1 January 1990 East joins West for theatre extravaganza AN IRON A double celebration CURTAIN Page 3 RAISER . • • MANWEB has raised the curtain on a major sponsorship package for a youth theatre extravaganza being launched by Liverpool Playhouse. East and West will join together for Red Star Brouhaha, the largest festival of youth drama ever staged in Britain. Help line For 10 days during April this year, youth theatres from seven Eastern European coun tries, together with seven national companies from England, Scotland and Wales and five Brookside actresses Jenny Hesketh (left) and Gillian Kearney from Merseyside will put on more than 40 performances at the Playhouse. celebrate the launch of Red Star Brouhaha with a glass of The Festival, involving more than 300 young people, will also include an extensive programme of Page4 champagne. Jenny, who stars as problem child Louise Mitchell, educational workshops and discussions. and Gillian, who played Damon's girlfriend Debbie, are both Manweb Chairman Bryan Weston said: "We are delighted to be the sole sponsor of this exciting initia members of the Playhouse Youth Theatre and were among the tive, which will place Britain at the forefront of a new East/West cultural and social exchange." guests at the Festival launch. Kate Willard, Associate Director for Youth at the Liverpool Playhouse, and the Festival's Director, said: "Red Star Brouhaha rep resents the largest association of Eastern European and British Crackdown on crime launched Youth Theatre ever to take place. by Sam Doughty "It is an enormous logistic and creative undertaking and we A MAJOR crackdown on crime against householders look forward to it in the spirit has been launched in Warrington with the backing of of challenge and international- Board Manweb. ism." Celebration Manweb has joined forces main targets for burglars, to be The five Merseyside theatre members with Cheshire Police, Warring replaced by card meters. companies taking part are Liver ton Borough Council and In addition, the local home pool's Catalyst, Everyman retire British Gas to launch 'Project watch, schools, the Victim Sup Youth and Unity Theatres, 22', focusing on the Longford port Group and four special Wirral Youth Theatre and St and Orford districts which have constables will all support Helens-based Outcast, and rep been particularly prone to bur Community Policeman Ian resenting Wales will be North Page 2 glaries. Ross in improving security on Powys Youth Theatre, from As part of the campaign, the estate. Welshpool. MERSEYSIDE and North which is the brainchild of local It is planned that the scheme The Eastern European coun Wales Electricity Board Edi Crime Prevention Officer Det. will be extended to other coun tries involved in the Festival are torial Office: Room GE26, Sgt. Dave Betts, local authority cil estates in Warrington, again Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Head Office, Sealand Road, houses are being fitted with with the backing of Manweb. Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Chester CH I 4LR. Tel: mortice deadlocks on front and Warrington MP Doug Hoyle USSR and Yugoslavia. Chester (0244) 377111. Inter rear doors, locks on ground is pictured (right) trying out a Kate Willard said: "The Fes nal 2090. floor and vulnerable upper floor card meter at the launch of the tival is designed to bring young people from Eastern Europe windows and opening lights. Project 22 campaign. Also pic Advertising Manager: Denys together with young people Mid Mersey Customer tured (left to right) are the King, D. & P. King, from the rest of Britain and Accounts Manager Bob Vernon Mayor of Warrington, Council Stoneleigh Hall, Cranston from Merseyside on a 10-day is heading the Manweb team lor George Syers, Community Road, East Grinstead, Sussex celebration of theatre alongside involved in the home security Policeman Ian Ross, and Man RH19 3HN. Tel: 0342 an extensive programme of edu effort. The District is arrang we b 's Mid Mersey District 324963. Fax No.: 0342 cational workshops and semi ing for coin meters, one of the Manager Des Lock. 410060 nars." CONTACT Page 2 John joins the financial team PRIVATE sector expertise has been brought into Manweb with the appointment of 43-year-old John Couch as Finan cial Controller. Based at Manweb's Chester Head Office, Mr Couch is Retirement should suit Bill responsible for mainstream accounting and the provision of PLANNING to take up golf in his retirement is Mid corporate accounting services. Mersey Installation Manager Bill France, who is pic A qualified accountant, he has come to Manweb from the tured receiving his farewell gifts from District Man Manchester-based paper mer ager Des Lock, watched by colleagues. down to a tee chandising and distribution Bill joined Manweb in 1958 as an Assistant Consumers company Alliance Paper Group Engineer (2) in the old Liverpool South District, following On reorganisation in 1970, he was designated Installation pie, where he was Group three years' National Service in Iraq, Cyprus and Malta. Engineer, Liverpool District. He stayed there until 1984 when Finance Director. He moved to Liverpool North District in 1961 as Assistant he was seconded to Mid Mersey for 12 months, but at the end Mr Couch (pictured), who is married with one son and lives Consumers Engineer (1), and was promoted again to Con of the year he was invited to stay on as Installation Engineer. in Bingley, West Yorkshire, pre sumers Engineer in 1963. Bill, who is also a dancing enthusiast, is a keen fund-raiser viously worked for six years as In 1968 Bill, who is married with four children, moved to in his spare time. A founder member of the Alder Hey Chil Controller of the BOC Group's Liverpool Central District as Assistant District Commercial dren's Kidney Fund, in 21 years he has brought in ul million Yorkshire health care manufac Engineer. for the charity. turing company Ohmeda, responsible for finance, account ing, computer systems, ware housing and distribution. Non-exec Prior to that-he spent eight years in other parts of the BOC members Group, including Regional Accountant (Gas Services Divi and Corporate Accountants, also sion), Finance and Administra spent two years working on step down tion Manager (Retail Division), strategic planning and invest and Group Accountant for BOC ment appraisals with the whisky THREE non-executive Healthcare, an international company Hiram Walker. members found themselves organisation with 18 sub He said: "I am very pleased on the agenda when they sidiaries. to have joined Manweb at this retired from the Board of Originally from Aberdeen, very exciting time, and am cur Manweb. Scotland, Mr Couch, who is a rently working on restructuring John Hooson, John Griffiths Fellow of the Chartered Institute the accounting and information and Richard de Zouche are pic of Management Accountants systems in anticipation of pri tured (left to right) receiving and a Fellow of the Certified vatisation." framed certificates from Man web Deputy Chairman Richard Gales (right) during a meeting Ex-Manweb man of the Board. Mr Griffiths, from Shotton, was awarded an OBE in the 1982 New Year Honours List. A Mike clocks off former official of the Transport and General Workers' Union, he FORMER Manweb employee Mike Caird has taken early retire works for the Wales TUC on a ment from his job as Assistant Personnel Officer with the CEBG consultancy basis. at Stockport after 41 years' service in the electricity supply He is also a former member industry. of the Welsh Industrial Develop Mike, whose wife Elaine works for Manweb at Lister Drive, ment Advisory Board, is a mag worked for Manweb for 26 years, having started his career as a istrate and member of industrial Junior Clerk at Hatton Garden, Liverpool, in 1948. tribunals, and has served on the past Chairman and President of A member of Merseyside received an OBE in the 1987 Following National Service in the RAF, he joined the old Liver Manweb Board since 1981. the Denbigh branch of the Chamber of Commerce, he is Birthday Honours List. pool North District at Marsh Lane, Bootle, before moving on to Mr Hooson joined the Man National Farmers' Union. currently Honorary Treasurer of Mr Griffiths, Mr Hooson and Warrington District in 1963. web Board in 1984. A member Mr de Zouche, who lives in the Association of British Cham Mr de Zouche are replaced by In 1974 he joined the CEGB at Fiddler's Ferry Power Station, and of the Neston, Wirral, has also served bers of Commerce, a member of three new non-executive Board for the past 14 years has been a member of the Personnel Depart Agricultural Land Tribunal and on the Manweb Board since the North West Industrial Devel members - Richard Morgan, 60, ment based at Europa House. also the Land Use Panel for 1984. He is a partner in the Liv opment Board and the Liverpool of BICC pie, 46-year-old Eryl A keen sportsman in his youth, Mike's main exercise these days is Wales, he farms 150 acres at erpool firm of chartered accoun Council of Social Services, and Morris, of Courtaulds pie, and taken on the golf course. He is also a keen supporter of Liverpool Denbigh, concentrating on beef tants, Wilson, de Zouche and Deputy Chairman of the Mid Glen Nightingale, 50, of Pilking FC. and sheep production, and is a McKenzie. shires Building Society. He ton pk. Goodbye and good luck Friends and colleagues gathered at Mid Mersey District to wish Principal Assistant Jean Seddon good luck on her retirement. Jean, who worked in Customer Accounts, started her career with Manweb in 1950 in a temporary post.