All articles by Grant Collinson

Grant Collinson

Collections nightmares

Ever found yourself at the bottom of a Lancashire quarry in the rain to collect a JCB, only to discover no one is qualified to move it? Perhaps youve turned up at a construction site to collect scaffolding, only to find five other lessors there to do the same and no way to tell whats yours and whats not. Whatever your Collection Nightmare we at Leasing Life are looking for the worst repossession tales from the UK and Europe for this diary page, so get in touch if you have a horror story worth sharing, or perhaps a leasing myth youve heard.

Basement Talk

It was the year William Jefferson Bill Clinton became the 42nd president of the United States; the World Trade Center in New York was hit by a car bomb planted by Islamist extremists; the US and Russia agreed to halve their stockpile of nuclear warheads; the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour repaired the Hubble telescope during a marathon spacewalk; and Marseille won the first UEFA Champions League Final.

Basement Talk

A lesson in bacon I can assert two things which are absolutely true: 1) breakfast, despite valiant attempts, is not a metaphor for life; 2) having an online forum leaves one open to the musings of the verbally wanton

Lombard to provide £4.5m to bottling firm

Lombard Asset Finance has struck a deal providing £4.5m (5.1m) of funding to European bottling company Envases. Envases secured the deal to help it procure a new £8.5m production line at its West Glamorgan manufacturing plant. RBS subsidiary Lombard will provide a four-stage payment to the manufacturer, which also has operations in Spain and France, to facilitate the purchase.