NEAL COMPLETES 25 YEARS SERVICE

BGB Innovation recently celebrated the 25th year of service of White Team Member Neal Edwards.

Neal joined BGB on 23rd May 1983 on a government funded scheme at the age of 15 years old.  He started work as an operative back in 1983 joining an existing team of only six men.  He later progressed to team leader for 18 months before turning to the design side of the company. Neal is now a key member of the highly skilled Toolroom team and is well liked and regarded throughout the company.

Learning the right skills and showing great enthusiasm throughout, Neal has always been someone new staff turn to if they have any queries.

Neal has been rewarded for long service with a 40" Sony Bravia HD TV, a digital picture frame, pool case and new cue, plus a heartfelt applause and congratulatory ceremony from all his colleagues at BGB.  Neal thanked his colleagues and said, “The time has absolutely flown by, its gone in a blink of an eye. The company has changed so much since ive been here, when i first started there were around 20 people, now there's over 70!"

BGB would like to thank Neal on his achievement and are proud to have him as an employee of BGB.

On this day 25 years ago… 23rd May:
'Bracelet lost 25 years ago found in chicken' - A man who lost his childhood identity bracelet more than 25 years ago has been reunited with the trinket after it turned up inside a chicken. (Source: www.telegraph.co.uk - 23rd May)

Other events on May 23rd …

1995

In England, 12 members of a Royal British Legion tour party on a day trip are killed when their coach plunges down an embankment on the M4 near the Severn Bridge.

1992

In Italy, the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone - a senior anti-Mafia prosecutor.

1977

South Moluccan terrorists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage after hi-jacking a train in the Netherlands. The children are released on May 27th - and the siege ends on June 11 when the train is stormed by Dutch police.

1960

Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion announces that his country's agents in Argentina have found and captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.

1949

The German Federal Republic (West Germany) formally comes into existence with Bonn as its capital.

1945

Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, the German Minister of the Interior and Reichsfuhrer-SS, commits suicide - a day after being captured. Learn more in our SS Microsite.

1944

British and American forces launch a massive offensive from the beach-head at Anzio in Italy.

1934

American armed robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot dead in an ambush by Texas Rangers near Gibland, Louisiana.

1931

Opening of Whipsnade Zoo in Bedford, England.

1915

In a decisive point in the early Great War, Italy declares war on Austro-Hungary.

1904

The introduction of new cheap steerage rates on board ships, encourages Europeans to migrate to the United States of America.

1887

French crown jewels go on sale and raise six million francs.

1873

The North West Mounted Police is established in Canada by Act of Parliament. Its name is changed to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920.

1788

South Carolina becomes the 8th state of the Union.

1706

Britain, Holland and Germany defeat the French at the Battle of Ramillies during the War of the Spanish Succession.

1533

To the irritation of the Pope, the English Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon to be void and his marriage to Anne Boleyn, legal. This is an important step in legitimising Henry's religious pretentions.

1498

Extremist Italian political and religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola, dictator of Florence, is simultaneously hanged and burnt at the stake.

1430

In France, Joan of Arc is captured by Burgundian troops and handed over to the English

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