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Taxi rank to be built at city bus station
Tour company Skills
Holidays, which uses the bus station and sells
holidays from there, said it was pleased with
the building and would be staying put. "Our
holidaymakers seem to like it as we've had no
adverse comments in their regular end-of-tour
reports."...
09/07/2010
07:30
Another bumper donation this week following a year of
fundraising by Skills Holidays
The milestone
comes on top of another bumper donation this
week following a year of fundraising by Skills
Holidays to celebrate the coach tour company's
90th anniversary. It collected £7,052, which was
presented to the charity by managing director
Nigel Skill...
10/06/2010
09:00
Skills Holidays rescues stranded students
MORE than 40 stranded university students made it back to
Nottingham yesterday after a 22-hour coach journey from Italy...
21/04/2010 07:00
Flight ban lifted
Bulwell-based Skills
Holidays had sent a fleet of coaches to Europe to pick up
stranded UK residents and the university organised for one to
collect the students. An Italian coach firm took the students to
northern France where they were met by a Skills Holidays coach....
20/04/2010
22:45
Skills Holidays help rescue stranded UK travellers from Europe
Skills Holidays yesterday sent out a fleet
of coaches to mainland Europe to help bring back stranded UK
residents. Five vehicles headed to...
20/04/2010 09:00
Skills Holidays help rescue stranded UK travellers from Europe
Skills Holidays yesterday sent out a fleet
of coaches to mainland Europe to help bring back stranded UK
residents. Five vehicles headed to...
20/04/2010 09:00
At long last, the new Derby bus station is up and running, with
the new Derby Skills Holidays Shop
Nigel Skill of Skills Holidays, which operates European and
international tours from out of the station, said the building
was visionary...
29/03/2010 07:30
Collingham sets up Paviors win
They were
presented with the kit by Nigel Skill, who played for Paviors in
the 1970s, and Simon Skill, of the Nottingham holiday firm,
Skills Holidays...
17/03/2010 07:00
Skills
snaps up Patron Travel - and a GIANT coach!
NOTTINGHAM-based Skills Holidays
has acquired the business and
principal contracts of Patron
Travel of Newark.No jobs will be
lost and Skills' fleet will be
increased with the acquisition
of the largest coach in the
Midland
21/01/2010 08:00
Stowaway cat makes unexpected
coach trip
A search was under way today for the owners of a
stowaway cat who travelled 140 miles lodged under the bonnet of
a holiday coach. The two-year-old animal, nicknamed Puss 'n Boot
by RSPCA inspectors, was looking for a warm place to sleep when
he came across the coach outside the President Hotel in
Blackpool...
08/12/2009 07:49
Skills Holidays offer ghost hunting trip
SKILLS Holidays is offering people the chance to go
ghost-hunting with a tour of some of England's most haunted
houses. The weekend break around Pendle Hill, in March, takes
the 1612 witch trial as its theme.
Nigel Skill, Skills...
01/12/2009 08:37
Student on Skills Holiday placement
A STUDENT at Nottingham Trent University has won a placement
with the Skills Holidays firm.
Nicole Scrivener said her work has encouraged her to seek a
career in the holiday industry. Her coach tutor Barbara Sargent
said...
15/10/2009 13:06
Travel firm Skills move city shop
SKILLS Holidays' city centre retail shop is on the move
after 25 years trading in Nottingham's Victoria Centre. For the
past 10 years, the firm has occupied the 'rotunda' in the main
entrance mall where its partners have included National...
16/09/2009 07:00
Skills secures Trent College deal
SCHOOL DEAL: Nigel Skill, managing director of Skills
Holidays and James Gregory, director of estates services at
Trent College, a public school in Long Eaton, with sixth formers
Sam Mason, Oliver Swann and head of school, Jack Bygott...
04/09/2009 07:00
Holiday boss cycles Land's End to John O'Groats for Maggie's
A COACH company boss is cycling from Land's End to John
O'Groats to raise money for Maggie's.
Nigel Skill, of Skills Holidays, set off on Saturday and aims to
complete the route in 14 days. He hopes to raise £9,000 in the
process. Mr Skill...
27/07/2009 10:52
Civic send off for Maggie’s cyclist
The Lord Mayor of Nottingham,
Councillor Jeannie Packer, has set Nigel Skill, the 55 year old
Nottingham coach company boss, off on his 14 day Land’s End to
John O’Groats cycling marathon...
24/07/2009 09:17
Nigel
Skill’s 14 day UK tour for Maggie’s
As part of the 90th
anniversary celebrations of Skills Holidays in Nottingham,
managing director, Nigel Skill, has arranged a special, and
strictly one-off, 14 day holiday for himself.
21/09/2009
11:37
Maggie's latest: blooms and bike rides
FRED Dudley is battling cancer for the third time. But instead
of sitting around feeling sorry for himself he is helping to
brighten up the lives of other cancer sufferers.
The 74-year-old tends to the flowers in the grounds next to the
18/07/2009 07:00
Nottingham coach firm Skills marks 90th anniversary
Skills, the famous Nottingham coach company, is celebrating its
90th anniversary this year. DAVID LOWE reports. SKILLS, a
company rooted in Nottingham, is proud of its track record
delivering excellent passenger...
14/04/2009 11:59
Apprentices of the Future Get Boost
From Holiday Firm
Ten 15 year olds at William Sharp School in
Nottingham are working towards national honours in the Formula
Schools 2009 race day at Silverstone in June 2009 with a little
help from a mechanic at Skills Holidays, the locally based coach
tour firm...
02/05/2009 11:23
Emma's blog
IT seems quite fitting that we are launching the Evening
Post Friends of Maggie's and everyone can be a part of what is
going to be an iconic cancer centre for our city. Since our ice
rink day our appeal has built up a huge momentum. Every...
28/01/2009 08:28
Bag a bag and boost £500,000 Maggie's appeal
THEY'RE fashionable, environmentally friendly and the latest
boost to our £500,000 Maggie's cancer caring centre appeal. The
black cotton bags, featuring a purple line drawing of the £3m
Nottingham centre designed by architect Piers Gough...
26/01/2009 11:00
Erik Petersen: Behind wheel of £235,000 coach
As someone who was exposed to heavy doses of country music and
the entire Smokey and the Bandit opus at an impressionable age,
I have always believe in the romance of "the open road"; in
"putting the hammer down" to get to "the chicken...
08/09/2008 08:15
Skills
Holidays - 90 years on the road
Skills Holidays has launched its 2009 UK and continental holiday
programme and there’s much to mark the company’s 90th year in
the business of pleasure...
26/08/2008 15:12
Skills reaches new heights with Torrs takeover
Skills Holidays, the Nottingham based coach firm, has taken over
the operations of Torrs Coaches, one of the city’s other long
established family owned holiday companies. In a move which
coincides...
20/07/2004 12:15
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