Mansfield Pollard – top local employer

UK: Contractor Mansfield Pollard has been named Employer of the Year in this year’s Bradford Means Business Awards.

The company, which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2016, was presented with the award at a black-tie event at at the Aagrah Midpoint, in Thornbury last week.

Organised by the Telegraph & Argus, the Bradford Means Business Awards showcases the district’s top businesses and entrepreneurs in 10 categories.

Sales director Louise Frankland told the Telegraph & Argus: “We are really, really pleased to take this back as it is an award that has been earned by all our staff. People are hugely important to a business.”