THING OF THE WEEK
UKGREiiF… The Tuesday morning at this year’s UKREiiF will be remembered for the long queues that stretched from the Dock Hall at the Royal Armouries all the way back to Leeds train station. Ok, maybe not quite that far but they were long, with some disgruntled property folk waiting over an hour to collect their passes. Thankfully, it didn’t rain.
From Ribblehead to REiiF, it was a busy few days in Yorkshire for Bill Davidson. Credit: Gary Butterfield via Unsplash
PEAKS AND TROUGHS… One man for whom an hour on his feet in a queue would have been tantamount to torture is P4 Planning’s Bill Davidson who prepared for UKREiiF by doing the Yorkshire Three Peaks a couple of days before. Credit to Bill, he was still going strong into Tuesday evening despite the lack of skin on his feet. Maybe next year he will think twice P4 taking on such an arduous task on the eve of arguably the busiest networking week of the year.
ROPED… Davidson was not the only one getting the blood pumping ahead of UKREiiF. Stockport deputy chief executive Paul Richards made it to the show after managing to not seriously injure himself abseiling down the side of Stopford House, which was “fortunate or unfortunate depending on your perspective”, he said. He raised £800 for Stockport Food Network in the process.
The sea defences are rather austere at present. Credit: via Radar Public Relations
THRYHLING… It wasn’t all about UKREiiF this week, contrary to what your LinkedIn feed might tell you. Other stuff has been going on, including the announcement of exciting opportunity for artists in Rhyl. Work has completed on the town’s flood defences and now the hunt is on for a troop of spray painters to spruce the austere concrete barrier up a little. A tribute to the fallen promenade legends of summer holidays past would go down well. RIP the Sun Centre and aquarium.
SECURITY!… Nothing says celebration quite like a giant pair of novelty scissors, does it? Half-term holidaymakers will be among the first to use the new security hall in Manchester Airport’s Terminal 2, as the airport’s 10-year transformation reaches its final stages. The new extension to T2 opened in 2021, and the new security hall comes weeks after the first few check-in desks opened.
Airport MD Chris Woodroofe said: “Here at Manchester Airport, we are proud to connect the North to the world and as we take these huge steps towards completing our £1.3bn transformation it means we’re connecting those passengers via an airport terminal that can rival any across Europe.” The security hall houses 10 new lanes, five of them opening straight away. All are equipped with tech meaning punters won’t have to remove electronic items from hand baggage and will be able to carry larger volumes of liquid. Although, rather ironically, giant scissors will still be frowned upon.
