Category: Chairman’s Blog

I am sure readers will be well aware of the current disagreements in Spain regarding Catalonia and the desire of its people, or some of them, to return to independence.  So what is the problem and why? Well, Catalonia was an independent region of the Iberian Peninsula – modern day Spain and Portugal – with […]

“It’s all looking good for the future”, is quite a bold statement to make in these uncertain times and there is always the realisation that the situation could change at any time and within an instant. The fact remains though that we are having a very good year so far.  There was one concern, that […]

In mid-October I arrived at Newcastle airport, North East England’s main regional airport at 4.30am on a Friday morning.  I was entering the terminal building along with a couple of hundred other people.  That was surprising enough but we were fighting our way in against a flood of a couple of hundred people who had […]

Those of us who work at the Solar Solve Marine Headquarters facility in South Shields are located in the Tyneside area of the UK, a mainly industrial centre of North East England quite close to the southern border of Scotland. South Shields is the home of the 156-year-old South Shields Marine School, which is still […]

Harton and Westoe Cobras and Vipers under 7’s football team was recently brought to the attention of Solar Solve Marine by its management team members Karl McMann and Jamie Mackintosh.  They were seeking financial support from local businesses to help them to give the 15 boys the best possible opportunity to beginning a long journey […]

Continuing the theme of my last Blog, which was ‘Customer Care – Going That Extra Mile’, my wife and I ended up in Newbury for a few hours last week as part of a coach tour. It was lunchtime and drizzling with rain, so after walking up and down a busy street we decided to […]