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The Bournemouth International Airport based distributor for Pilatus, the Swiss aircraft manufacturer, has opened a new sales operation on Jersey to provide advice and arrange demonstration flights for the nine-seat luxury executive aircraft, the Pilatus PC-12. With UK sales and maintenance continuing at the Bournemouth Pilatus centre, former international sales and business development
executive Matt Mackenzie has been appointed as Group Sales Director to support potential customers from the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Spain and Gibraltar. The UK Pilatus Centre expects to boost sales of the $4.6 million PC-12 in the coming months as more frequent business flyers recognise the need to avoid airport queues and enjoy the advantages of owning their own aircraft.
Trio climb aboard LEP A
leading light in the marine industry, a natural born seller from the world of retail and a professor in environmental geology have been appointed at the Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership. Jim Stewart, chief executive of Poole Harbour Commissioners, Tony Brown CEO of Beale Plc and Professor Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University have recently joined the board of the Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership – a new organisation set to drive and expand Dorset’s economy. Chairman Gordon Page welcomed them, saying: “I am delighted to welcome Jim Stewart, Tony Brown and Matthew Bennett to the Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership. “With their wealth of knowledge and experience in their industry sectors we
can bring even more entrepreneurial drive to the table whilst representing Dorset’s key sectors. We are confident this drive will bring us increased access to Government funding and ultimately improve Dorset as a place to do business.” The LEP has already attracted nearly £50 million of investment for the county and substantial sums are expected in the near future. Some £10 million has been allocated from the Government’s Growing Places fund to boost jobs and housing and more than £38 million to deliver superfast broadband across Dorset by April 2015. Recently the government granted Dorset more than £12million to improve the east-west corridor between Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch.
Final folk
This year’s Wimborne Folk Festival is to be the last as organisers say they can no longer afford to stage the weekend-long event. In a statement on the Festival website they said: “We are convinced this is the right time before it all gets too frustrating and we stop enjoying it” and blamed “those people and businesses that make a lot of money on the back of our year round hours of voluntary hard work but give nothing in return”. One of England’s largest annual folk music and dance events, the volunteerrun Festival was first staged in 1980 and regularly attracted crowds of up to 30,000. Local music fan James Marshall has set up the Save the Wimborne Folk Festival page on Facebook.
One-day Sale
Former Seeker News cover star James Sale hosts a one-day personal development workshop on November 2. In the first part, entitled Developing Self Awareness and Belief, he’ll reveal the three brains and discuss the seven success elements of life. Part two – Developing Your Creativity and Purpose – offers self-hypnosis techniques and an examination of why creativity is central to the human experience. seekernews.co.uk 11