Very difficult to find sufficient words but from first meeting you when I started work for Nightfreight in Crewe, through my incessant nagging of you for almost a year to come and join me at Alliance Healthcare some 10yrs ago (I really, really needed your help in those early days!) to the last decade of working together at Alliance, your support, humour & friendship never wavered & I’ll always be grateful for having known you mate. You were gentleman. Rest easy.