Gary Dutton MBE - The Business Builder

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We have some new entrants this year - the highest being the new owner of Nottingham Forest, Evangelos Marinakis. Plant hire and traffic management millionaire Harols Martin and Newark-based animal renerer Jeffrey Pears make the list, as does Notts County and Paragon Interiors owner Alan Hardy. Profits and turnover are on the up at Robert and Jonathan Mould’s award-winning Kirkby-in-Ashfield based home furnishings company Romo, which sells upholstery fabrics and furnishings. Tony Langley is chairman and chief executive of Langley Holdings. The company’s worldwide manufacturing and commercial operations occupy more than two million sq ft. More than half of this is in Germany. Power supply systems group Piller has been part of the Langley empire since 2004 and is the principal driver of the group’s improved profitability. Claudius Peters GmBH, a leading supplier of materials handling and process equipment, joined the group in 2001.

Jonathon Nolan, 35, received a suspended sentence for burglary and disclosing private sexual images. (Image: Liverpool Echo) A man who neglected his dog so badly that a vet had to put her down her after finding maggots crawling out of her infected ear avoided jail. Vets decided to put down Aaron Croston’s Neapolitan Mastiff, Shy, after she was taken to a surgery in Prenton last year unable to stand on her own and in severe pain. She has also used racist “great replacement”-style anti-migrant arguments, for example writing: “According to the birth rate, Europe will fall and become a Muslim majority continent by 2050.” Competition from supermarkets has resulted in job losses and cost-cutting exercises in recent years, but the business remains robust. The Nottingham-based beauty contract manufacturing business is being taken over by French company Fareva, but with a 10-year contract to supply Boots. Nat Puri received a CBE in 2015 for services to charity and education. The same year he received the Pravasi Bharatiya award from the President of India for his philanthropy. His charitable foundation gives half a million pounds a yearThe David Ross Education Trust provides funding and expertise to more than 30 academies across the East Midlands, providing education opportunities to more than 9,000 young people. Romo supports an Oxfam project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, helping to improve education for children in some of the poorest areas of the country. By donating a portion of profits, Romo has funded the renovation of several schools, provided basic educational equipment and much needed training workshops for teachers and support staff.

Peter Hussey, prosecuting, said the pair left both shops facing thousands in losses due to the damage they caused and the items they stole.

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He has competed internationally at fencing and was ranked seventh in the country. He has a fencing supplies business called Duellist. There is a good argument that the EU is a multinational-friendly capitalist institution, one that is happy to see citizens squeezed in favour of bankers. It’s why in southern Europe left-wing parties are often very critical of the EU. As well as art philanthropists they are also collectors, with a passion for British decorative art. Their collections include ceramics, woodwork and watches, and a substantial collection of paintings by LS Lowry.