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EASTERN AIRWAYS IN-FLIGHT Yours to keep 51 | Spring 2015 GUARDIAN ANGEL Watching over the Green Belt ALSO IN THIS MAGAZINE: MARMALADE ‘OSCARS’ FISHING FOR SALMON OLIVIA COLMAN ENERGY EXTRA SUPPLEMENT Raising Standards Lowering Costs CRANE SERVICES WORLDWIDE Increasing Safety CraneCRANE out SERVICES of service projects Crane Repairs, Inspections, Project Overhauls, ProjectMulti-Skilled overhauls Engineers Specialised custom built upgrades SPECIALIST WORKSHOPS Fast reaction breakdown service Hydraulic, Electronic and Mechanical Repairs Specialised multi-skilled engineers OEMHose integrityPARTS management SUPPLY ComponentOriginal Parts, Obsoleteworkshop Parts repair and fabrication Non-Destructive testing ENGINEERING & DESIGN NewRope Designs, Access Modifications, Recertification DROPS HSEACCESS Based INSPECTION Training NDT, DROPS, SPS, LOLER, Rope Access HSE TRAINING NEBOSH Training, IOSH Managing Safely, Manual Handling, Environmental Awareness Training HOSE MANAGEMENT DNV Containers, Specialist Engineers, Online Database CRANE UPGRADES Controls, Power Packs, Man-Riding CRANE SALES New and Used, Installation, Testing AUDIT PREPARATION ISO 9001, Risk Assessment, COSHH Assessment, Site Survey UNITED KINGDOM NEW FOR 2015 Kidderminster Office Telephone: Aberdeen Office Telephone: Arthur Drive +44 1562 747050 Unit 7, Airways Industrial Estate +44 1224 797232 Hoo Farm, Industrial Estate Pitmedden Road, Dyce Kidderminster Email: Aberdeen Email: DY11 7RA [email protected] AB21 0DT [email protected] WORLDWIDE CRANE SUPPORT NETWORK GERMANY MIDDLE EAST +49 4795 957 1460 +971 4 885 7954 [email protected] [email protected] USA / PANAMA SINGAPORE HONG KONG +1 281 431 0707 +65 6861 2336 +852 2153 2153 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.alatas.com WELCOME Welcome to Eastern Airways, Europe’s Gold Award-winning regional airline In this the Spring issue of our in-flight magazine Eastern troubled detective in ITV’s Broadchurch drama. Airways’ cabin attendant Kimberly Lewis explains why hers is simply the best job she could wish for. Adam Jacot shares more of his curious observations on language, while life gets sticky at the World Marmalade In the following pages, Kevin Pilley shares with readers the Awards and Harry Pearson fears he’s entering his “dadage”. joys of Llangoed Hall, which counts Visit Wales Gold and Sunday Times Country House Hotel of the Year among a Our Essential Guide this issue does its best to get behind litany of awards. the meaning of “Green Belt” and highlights the best of Green Belts near Eastern Airways destinations, while We visit award-winning Ballathie House Hotel, where Stan Lynne Greenwood finds an impressive home on the market Abbott dips a metaphorical toe into the salmon waters of at Swanland, near Hull, in our property feature. There’s the River Tay. There’s the chance for readers to visit the hotel for themselves and have a go at clay-pigeon shooting and architecture of a different sort to be discovered at a Norfolk archery. school, which features in a book on the careers of some successful women last century. We take a whistle-stop tour round Hartlepool, where the port’s favourite preserved sailing ship is looking forward to We hope you enjoy your flight with Eastern Airways – do take a bright new future. Still beside the sea, Tina Ediss meets your magazine away with you for family and friends to enjoy. the doyen of Southampton restaurateurs, Steve Hughes, while our celebrity interviewee is Norfolk’s Olivia Colman, the THE EASTERN TEAM FÀILTE CROESO VELKOMMEN Tha Eastern Airways a’ cur fàilte air ar Croeso gan Eastern Airways magazine, i bob Eastern Airways magasinet ønsker våre luchd-cleachdaidh gu lèir bho Bhreatainn un o’n cwsmeriaid ym mhob rhan o Brydain kunder i Storbritannia og Europa velkommen. agus an Roinn Eòrp. Fawr ac Ewrop. Eastern Airways er et av Storbritannias Tha Eastern Airways am measg prìomh Mae Eastern Airways ymhlith y prif gwmnïau ledende ruteflyselskap. Vi håper at du vil være làn-sheirbheisean adhair clàraichte na RA. awyrennau yn y DU sy’n cynnig amserlen fornøyd med servicen vår – og at den tilbyr Tha sinn an dòchas gum meas sibh ar lawn o wasanaethau. Gobeithio y gwelwch deg det lille ekstra som er prikken over i-en. Vi seirbheis, an dà chuid, cùramach agus chi fod ein gwasanaeth yn un gofalus ac setter alltid pris på å motta dine kommentarer beagan eadar-dhealaichte – tha sinn ychydig bach yn wahanol – rydyn ni bob om både servicen og magasinet. an-còmhnaidh toilichte ur beachdan mun amser yn falch o gael eich sylwadau am ein t-seirbheis againn, is mu ar n-iris, a gwasanaeth ac am ein cylchgrawn. EASTERN-TEAMET chluinntinn. TÎM EASTERN SGIOBA EASTERN high fl ying deep drillers You are probably reading this at 10,000 concept to the one your pilot trained on. ere, metres. e fuel that’s keeping you up here in a unique environment, they mix routine may have come from 3,000 metres under the with crisis to ensure that they take safe right earth’s surface. Everyone responsible for this down into the core of the earth. technologic achievement, from roughneck to captain, from well to engine, has to perform For more information, please contact: to their professional limit. Tomorrow’s oil Tel: +44 (0)1224 228 148 engineers are today at Maersk Training in Email: [email protected] Aberdeen, sitting in simulators, similar in Book online: www.maersktraining.com a better learning experience CONTENTS CONTENTS 47 GREEN GUIDE 18 SITTING PRETTY 27 SHIP AHOY! REGULARS COMPETITION FEATURES 07 HIGH FLYER 37 STAY ON THE TAY 13 TO THE RESCUE Kimberly Lewis is relishing her life WIN an exclusive break at Bristow launches new civilian as a member of Eastern Airways Ballathie Country House Hotel on Search and Rescue service cabin crew and you could join her the banks of the River Tay 14 SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY 09 NEWS Southampton entrepreneur What’s happening around Eastern Steve Hughes reveals his recipe Airways destinations for success 21 BOOK REVIEW 16 IN CHARACTER Her Brilliant Career by Rachel Adam Jacot discovers a treasure Cooke trove of words and phrases among our rich dialects 25 PROPERTY HOTSPOT Swanland in East Yorkshire is the 18 GEORGE CLOONEY place to warm to SLEPT HERE… Kevin Pilley visits Llangoed Hall, ENERGYLATEST DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS EXTRA IN THE ENERGY WORLD • SPRING 2015 27 EXPLORATION EXPRESS the UK’s 2014 Hotel of the Year Royal Navy Museum docks in FEELING THE HEAT Hartlepool A look at geothermal prospects in the UK 22 OLIVIA COLEMAN We talk to the Norwich-born, 38 BARE ESSENTIALS Bafta-winning actress Eastern Airways’ network map, passenger information, essential 30 MARMALADE OSCARS goings-on and destination guides Visiting the crazy world of the charity jamboree 47 ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Fly easternairways.com GREEN BELTS II 34 GONE FISHING All within easy reach of Eastern SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT Searching for salmon on Airways destinations ENERGY EXTRA the River Tay 50 THE LAST WORD Harry Pearson feels his age Eastern Airways in-flight magazine is published © March 2015. 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Green belt, Newstead Abbey image: Steven Glass [email protected] To advertise in Eastern Airways Magazine, call Liz Reekie on +44 (0) 7563 796103 / +44 (0) 1434 240947 or email [email protected] ONE WORLD. ONE TEAM. ONE YOU. Bristow’s European Business Unit (EBU) As our operations expand with new contract covers our oil and gas and search and rescue wins, we have an ongoing requirement for a (SAR) operations across Norway and the UK. number of key positions. With more than 1,000 employees and over 60 aircraft, we operate the North Sea’s youngest Future recruitment needs include: fleet and are Bristow’s largest Business Unit. PILOTS LICENSED SUPPORT STAFF HELICOPTER > Aircraft Handlers > Aircraft Ground Operations Officers ENGINEERS > Operations Controllers For more information, please visit: www.bristowgroup.com/careers www.bristowgroup.com NEWS FEATURE: FLYING HIGH WITH EASTERN AIRWAYS NEWS FROM EASTERN AIRWAYS DESTINATIONS NEWS FROM EASTERN AIRWAYS Eastern Airways is recruiting cabin staff. Kimberly Lewis explains why work as cabin crew is a dream come true… It was working on check-in at Newcastle Airport that first “I really enjoy my job: in the beginning it was a little daunting gave Kimberly, now 23, the flying bug – and introduced her to but obviously now I am in the flow of things,” said Kimberly. Eastern Airways. Since her initial training, Kimberly is subject to a “line check” “I have always wanted to fly and, previously, I worked with and spot checks at regular intervals and an annual refresher Swissport for four years and checked in Eastern Airways flights course, also including CRM. She mostly flies from Newcastle a couple of times,” she said. “The passengers were really on Eastern Airways’ Jetstream 41 aircraft, to Aberdeen, Cardiff nice and so I looked at the website and was attracted by how and Birmingham. professional it all looked. I decided I wanted to fly but other “You get to know the passengers on a weekly basis, especially airlines didn’t appeal to me.” on Mondays and Fridays when the regulars are going home.