A tool shop is set to officially open in Knaresborough later this month.
Tool Mix will open on Hambleton Grove Industrial Estate on May 18. An official open day is planned to showcase the new business.
According to Tool Mix’s social media it is “a one-stop shop for tools, workwear, storage and tool accessories”.
It adds:
“We offer the power and performance you need to tackle any job with confidence. We stock a wide range of leading brands including Milwaukee, Sealey, Laser and Ox Tools.”
Tim France, founder and director of Tool Mix lives in Knaresborough and worked for Snap-On tools for eight years in Leeds and Harrogate before deciding to take the leap into opening his own business.
The business currently has five employees, two tool vans and stocks bestsellers in the tool industry such as CT1 sealant.
Tool Mix van
Mr France said:
“I have driven for Snap-On in the area and I am a local lad so I already know our customers really well. With Tool Mix I don’t want to be a faceless, soulless business – people often see a shop front and have no connection. I want to support local businesses, look after people and go above and beyond with our service. We want to do more than selling tools – we want to be part of the community.”
The open day event on Saturday, May 18 will take place between 10.30am and 3pm.
There will be demonstrations of power tools, competitions, free refreshments and a charity prize raffle, with all proceeds going to St Michael’s Hospice and St Leonard’s Hospice. In the raffle a tool-kit of power tools worth around £500 will be on offer.
The tools and brands on offer at Tool Mix
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Andrew Jones MP tells constituent he feels ‘anger’ over partygate
Harrogate & Knaresborough Conservative MP Andrew Jones has told a constituent that he feels “anger” over partygate — but would not say whether he has submitted a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The long-awaited Sue Gray report was published last week and found that many of the parties in Downing Street “should not have been allowed to happen”.
The report included details of vomiting and parties lasting until 4am while the UK was under covid restrictions.
Following the publication of the report, a constituent wrote to Mr Jones. The MP responded in a letter on May 27 with his thoughts on the subject.
The constituent asked not to be named, but shared the letter with the Stray Ferret.
Mr Jones wrote:
“I understand the anger people feel. I feel it too. Most of all I feel intensely depressed that senior people in our political system have pretended, or somehow genuinely believed, that tables groaning with bottles of wine, as we have now seen pictured, were in some way allowed work practices.”
Mr Jones has previously been outspoken over partygate and said in the letter that his “anger is not going to lessen”.
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In January, the MP wrote to a different constituent to say if criminal actions were found then “consequences must flow from that”.
In April, the Prime Minister was given a fixed penalty notice for attending a birthday gathering on June 20, 2020. It made him the first Prime Minister to have been found to have broken the law while in office.
However, the letter suggests that Mr Jones now considers the case closed.
He wrote:
“My anger isn’t going to lessen and I am not going to forget this episode in the story of Covid-19. But I won’t be commenting again unless something substantially new comes to light having already responded to hundreds and hundreds of emails and letters on every aspect of this matter.”
The BBC has reported at least 20 Tory MPs have written to the 1922 committee of backbenchers with letters of no confidence in the Prime Minister.
Fifty-four letters are needed to trigger a leadership vote, but Mr Jones would not reveal if he has submitted one, writing:
“This is a matter that will remain between myself and the chair of the 1922 committee.”
The Stray Ferret has asked Mr Jones for his views following the publication of the Sue Gray report, but has not received a response.