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Premier role for Bellaghy company in M&S new green store

Leading Northern Ireland commercial electrical contractor Premier Electrics has just completed work on a major contract for a pioneering prototype ‘green store’ being trialled by Marks & Spencer in Sheffield which opened last week. The Bellaghy-based company was tasked with the electrical fit out of a wide range of energy reducing initiatives in the cutting [...]

Listen to Carolyn Stewart interview the winner of our great schools’ compy

U105.8FM’s Carolyn Stewart interviews little Holly Dougan and Emer Vallely from Millquarter PS after the reception to reveal the winner of the province-wide competition to win a school garden.  Little Holly’s concept was selected as the winner from hundreds of entries. She is joined in the interview by Lauren Acheson (Acheson and Glover) and Steven Thompson [...]

Titanic sails again – 100 years after the ‘unsinkable’ sank

A unique stage recreation of the tragic sinking of the Titanic will be played out in a Belfast theatre exactly 100 years to the minute that the ill fated ship sank. Such is the interest expected in the Belfast Operatic Company’s historic week-long Grand Opera House run of the multi award winning “TITANIC – The [...]

Suzanne Garuda fronts new Aylesbury property video

Serious has just completed a promotional film for top local residential property developers, Fraser Houses (www.fraserhouses.com) as part of our profile building work for Aylesbury Place, Newtownabbey, Belfast. We worked with Millar Grattan Media on the three minute video fronted by top interior designer, Suzanne Garuda. Check it out here.

The future’s looking bright for Arthur and Iwona

When 32 year-old Arthur Alder and his wife Iwona decided to buy their first home, they had very definite ideas about what they wanted. “We preferred a new build, and one that was turnkey so we could move into it with the minimum of fuss,” explained Arthur, a production technician with Diageo in Mallusk who [...]

Give your home an outfit for all year round

  With spring beckoning us outdoors, the experts at Acheson & Glover have lots of new ideas to help you make the most of your outside space – not just now, but ALL year round. “With more homeowners deciding to ‘improve not move’, people are starting to realise that their outside space has a lot [...]

Travel Solutions makes it to finals of Belfast Business Awards!

Serious client, Travel Solutions will battle it out against the corporate cream of the city at the finals of the Belfast Business Awards next month. According to the organisers of the event there has been a record number of entries for this year’s awards. The results will be announced at a gala dinner on 14 [...]

Concrete Ideas for your Garden

Garden design is now recognised as a sensible investment of homeowners as well as a natural way to extend your living space. One of Acheson & Glover’s recommended Landscape Designers Thomas Harpur talks us through making the most of a small garden. The good news for people with small gardens is that you can have [...]

The future’s looking bright for Betty and Tony

  A high spec turnkey package at Glengormley’s popular Aylesbury Place development was one of the big attractions for recent buyers Betty and Tony Stephens. Renowned for building good quality homes, Fraser Houses has really pushed the boat out with the standard of fixtures and fittings at Aylesbury Place and coupled with a lowest price [...]

Sapa leads the way with first system house WERS Kitemark in the UK

Following on from the launch of the Group Window Energy Rating Kitemark scheme, Sapa Building System has been awarded the first Kitemark certificate in the UK at Glassex. “Sapa has led the industry in developing this route to WER’s, working closely with the British Standards Institution (BSI),” said Mark Robinson, Technical Director, Sapa.  “The scheme [...]