Former Carillion finance director joins Speller Metcalfe

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Regional contractor Speller Metcalfe has confirmed the appointment of Judith Lewis as its new Finance Director.

Lewis held a similar role at Carillion’s property development business where she worked for more than 20 years before the group collapsed in January 2018.

Former Speller Metcalfe Finance Director Mike Clarke will move into a part-time role as Group Financial Controller.

Speller Metcalfe joint managing director Andy Metcalfe said: “Her wealth of experience and strong track record within the construction industry will be instrumental to strengthening our financial resilience and strategic plans to consolidate our strong trading position.”

Latest results for the firm for the year to March 31 2021 show pre-tax profits dropped of £536,000 from from a turnover of £104.7m.

Metcalfe is expecting turnover to return to pre-pandemic levels of £120m this financial year.

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McLaren poised for £100m Amazon “spy centre”

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Tech giant Amazon is lining-up contractors for three new massive data centres – one of which is set to be used to host classified material for the UK spy agencies.

The Financial Times has reported that GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 have struck a deal with Amazon’s cloud computing arm AWS to host classified material in one of the centres.

And the Enquirer understands that McLaren Construction is set to build the snooping centre.

A number of contractors have been in the running but one said: “It’s been a good contest but it looks like McLaren has won the race.

“I think they have bagged the James Bond building and another purely Amazon data centre. The winning contractor for the third project is still up in the air at the moment.”

In true secret service style McLaren declined to comment.

The job would be another 007 related win for the contractor which has also bagged Aston Martin’s new £200m F1 factory project next to the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit.

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