Skip navigation www.calderdale.gov.uk FacebookTwitterRSS Plans are progressing to create a vibrant new public space in the heart of Todmorden Calderdale Council is investing around £3.5 million to transform Bramsche Square in the town centre The ‘Public Places in the heart of Todmorden’ project is just one part of the Todmorden Town Deal’s £17.5 million regeneration of the town funded by the UK Government and led by Todmorden Town Deal Board The Council has released new design images showing how the Bramsche Square area could look the Council has refined the scheme and developed the latest designs with the needs of residents businesses and visitors taken into account with the bays increased in size to make parking easier and meet new standards The three new disabled bays will have hatching to all sides to better meet people’s needs The Council is talking to potential contractors to gather interest in the project with a view to seeking contract tenders and planning permission in 2025 Calderdale Council’s Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Transport “We want as many people as possible to enjoy all that Todmorden has to offer from its markets and shops to its events and heritage and we want the town and its businesses to continue to thrive “By creating a vibrant new multipurpose space through the Todmorden Town Deal we’re hoping to encourage more people to visit help boost local trade and create opportunities for the economy to grow “We’re excited to share new images showing the latest designs for Bramsche Square.” “I am delighted that the designs for Todmorden’s town centre will achieve a greener more attractive and welcoming Bramsche Square Our markets and businesses will benefit from a modern fit for purpose space and layout which will encourage people to use local shops restaurants and other facilities and bring more visitors to our wonderful town and countryside “The Board’s ambition is for a Todmorden known for its markets and small independent shops and businesses where profit stays local and supports our small producers The latest town centre plans are a major step in realising this and in offering a fantastic space for showcasing our unique community led arts “Our priority is for a town where people and businesses can succeed in challenging times and we are confident these designs reflect that ambition.” aims to regenerate towns and deliver long-term economic and productivity growth This is through investments in urban regeneration You can search for archived press releases from 1999 to 2013. 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Always accept cookies Read our Privacy policy The list of great athletes from Pueblo that have made it to a professional level is growing once again as Pueblo’s own David Simental a graduate of Pueblo West High School and former Colorado State University Pueblo basketball player will be signing with German professional team Tus Red Devils Bramsche The Red Devils are in the North-West division of the Regionalliga league in Germany Simental has worked his entire career to get to this point but he knows this isn't the end of his journey to have the opportunity to play basketball on a professional level was something that Simental has always dreamed about “I'm just really excited to go and represent Pueblo,” Simental said “I wouldn't have gotten here without my dad They've been at the gym with me every single day My dad has trained me since I was able to walk More: These four professional athletes made their names in Pueblo. Here's where they are now Simental has worked on his game since he was young He accomplished a lot during his high school career earning the Colorado Player of the Year award in basketball and went on to play college basketball at CSU Pueblo and at Regis Jesuit Simental has had to learn and grow in his sport all of his hard work is finally paying off with a chance to play professionally overseas “There were a lot of mental hurdles to get over “I always wanted to play Division I but that never happened But I had a great support system and that kind of kept me going There were a lot of unknowns about playing professionally There are just a lot of different unknowns but I have had a lot of people who have helped me.”  Simental signed with an agency and within a few months they had been in contact with Bramsche Red Devils Simental was signed with one of the top teams in the German Regionalliga league to get paid to play basketball,” Simental said I'm just so blessed to get to play this game and get paid for it.”  Simental will have a bit of an adjustment period once he gets to Germany but one thing that is sure to travel with him with no problem is his skill on the court I always am very confident,” Simental said I know there will be adjustments to being in a new country I don't know how many people speak English I just know I have an apartment and a roommate.”  Simental is happy and excited about this new opportunity to play overseas; however he is also humble and realizes that this isn’t an opportunity that is afforded to many people but he also knows that he can be looked at as an inspiration for future athletes from Pueblo doesn't mean you should limit yourself,” Simental said “You should take pride in that and want to go play against the Denver and the (Colorado) Springs people and that you can do it All that matters is how much time you put in the gym Simental knows that all this success has not come easy and he’s had to work hard to get to this point “I'm just extremely blessed and I'm extremely grateful,” Simental said “It's one thing to make it to college basketball Not a lot of people are doing that from Pueblo I'm just blessed and I'm happy to represent Pueblo.”  More: New Greater Pueblo Chamber of Commerce division aims to solidify Pueblo as a sports town As far as what he has to do to continue his career in the sport he loves so much No one cares if you score a bunch of points but lose I need to help my team win and play as best as I can and then and then we'll see what happens.”  Christopher Abdelmalek is a sports reporter for the Pueblo Chieftain and can be reached at  cabdelmalek@gannett.com or on Twitter: @chowebacca subscribe to The Pueblo Chieftain at subscribe.chieftain.com Receive our weekly Newsletterand set tailored daily news alerts who successfully managed the company for more than 14 years Agriculture, Protective, Sports/​Outdoor Martin Denney will become Vice President of BondCote Corporation who successfully managed the company for more than 14 years and retired on 4 December 2017 BondCote Corporation is an American branch of the textiles group Heytex in Bramsche BondCote Corporation was acquired as part of the company's portfolio The US based company is specialised in the production of coated and laminated textiles for military as well as banners for indoor and outdoor applications Martin Denney brings a wealth of experience in operations and sales from the industry including more than 10 years in a global company where he was responsible for the production of technical textiles “I am very much looking forward to this new task and the associated challenge I am convinced that we will continue to write the BondCote Corporation success story,” said Martin Denney Ted Anderson will leave the textiles manufacturer after more than 14 years in the management who has consistently and successfully aligned the company with the future requirements in the textile sector he has stabilised BondCote and without his commitment and enthusiasm after our merger We wish Ted Anderson all the best for his new phase of life,” commented Dr Heribert Decher BondCote has gained an experienced managing director whose knowledge we can rely on and from whose experience the company will undoubtedly benefit I am looking forward to working with Martin Denney and wish him every success in this new challenge.” The Heytex Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers in the development of high-quality and functionalized technical textiles and produces them at four production sites on three continents in Bramsche & Ebersbach-Neugersdorf (Germany) Heytex covers a very wide spectrum of products Heytex materials are used as truck tarpaulins biogas membranes or as advertising media in large-format digital printing www.heytex.com Owens Corning appoints new President and COO Suominen appoints new Chief Technology Officer VF Corporation appoints new Reef Brand President The road to the reception camp in Hesepe has become something of a refugees' avenue Small groups of young men wander along the sidewalk A family from Syria schleps a clutch of shopping bags towards the gate A Sudanese man snakes along the road on his bicycle The main road "is like a pedestrian shopping zone," says one resident "except without the stores." Red-brick houses with pretty gardens line both sides of the street and Kathrin and Ralf Meyer are standing outside theirs "It's gotten a bit too much for us," says the 31-year-old mother of three Now the Meyers are planning to move out in November They're sick of seeing asylum-seekers sit on their garden wall or rummage through their garbage cans for anything they can use Though "you do feel sorry for them," says Ralf who's handed out some clothes that his children have grown out of "But there are just too many of them here now." a village of 2,500 that comprises one district of the small town of Bramsche in the state of Lower Saxony making it a symbol of Germany's refugee crisis Locals are still showing a great willingness to help but the sheer number of refugees is testing them The German states have reported some 409,000 new arrivals between Sept 15 -- more than ever before in a comparable time period -- though it remains unclear how many of those include people who have been registered twice Six weeks after Chancellor Angela Merkel's historic decision to open Germany's borders there is a shortage of basic supplies in many places in this prosperous nation portable housing containers and chemical toilets are largely sold out Authorities in many towns are worried about the approaching winter because thousands of asylum-seekers are still sleeping in tents But what Germany lacks more than anything is a plan to make Merkel's two most-pronounced statements on the crisis -- "We can do it" and "We cannot close our borders" -- fit together In the second month of what has been dubbed the country's brand new "Welcoming Culture," it has become clear to many that Germany will only be able to cope if the number of refugees drops But that is unlikely to happen anytime soon Tens of thousands of people are making their way to Germany along the so-called Balkan route; at the same time Merkel's efforts to reduce the influx through diplomacy and tougher regulations remain just that The European Union has agreed to better secure its external borders but none of Germany's neighboring states are willing to take any significant number of refugees off her hands And Merkel's forceful announcement that she would send asylum-seekers from Kosovo and Albania home more quickly is being hindered by a regulation that says refugees can avoid the authorities' grasp simply by producing a medical certificate Merkel's last hope is Recep Tayyip Erdogan The chancellor is visiting Ankara this weekend bringing with her a number of gifts that Europe's leaders had discussed in their summit in Brussels The plan is to persuade Erdogan to strengthen the border in the Aegean Sea that "the strong nation of Germany" (as Merkel put it) is unable to The griping over Merkel's policies has grown louder within her own party The meetings of the party's parliamentary group which for many years radiated the boredom of an English gentleman's club now resemble tribunals against the chancellor by cracking jokes about border controls in the former East Germany Government sources say she has made refugee policy her personal concern and now she is being left to deal with it on her own Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière confided in his Luxembourg counterpart telling him that Merkel did not have a plan Ralph Tiesler has seen all kinds of crisis scenarios in his career as a public official his authority was supposed to simulate the effects of a major storm tide on the North Sea coast but the crisis management exercise had to be cancelled deputy head of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) had to get to grips with a real emergency situation: Tiesler is the man who distributes the refugees across Germany In a situation room on a military complex near Munich's Olympic Stadium he and his 30 colleagues have a large monitor where they can see which refugee homes currently still have space after the number of new arrivals increased again on Monday night Between 8,000 and 10,000 refugees have been arriving recently -- per day The distribution lists are political hot potatoes The various states fastidiously make sure they aren't allocated more refugees than has been set down by the so-called "Königstein Key," the agreement between the federal government and the states that stipulates how much each state contributes to national programs: Bavaria the quotas are only roughly correct -- according to current calculations Hamburg has taken in 4,500 too many refugees and Saxony-Anhalt) have together accepted almost 10,000 too few The wealthy state of Baden-Württemberg is around 7,800 short of its quota "A 100-percent fair distribution isn't possible at the moment," says Tiesler The argument is escalating because tens of thousands of asylum-seekers haven't even been registered yet -- no one actually knows the exact number of refugees in the country a lot of refugees don't want to be distributed around the country -- they want to decide for themselves where they live They want to go to where they already have relatives and friends a train from Bavaria carrying 450 refugees arrived in the town of Uelzen in Lower Saxony Red Cross workers greeted them with tea and warm blankets They were due to board buses heading on to the local villages of Fallingbostel and Wittmund but around 300 refused -- they wanted to continue their travel on their own -- by train Now Bundeswehr soldiers have been stationed in Uelzen to gently guide refugees to the buses Meanwhile the weather is giving Tiesler a lot to worry about Authorities are determined not to allow anyone to sleep in the wet and cold in the open air "We have to do everything we can to prevent homelessness and we have to organize the distribution accordingly," he says It was one of the instructions that local councils and mayors fear the most Michael Cyriax learned a week ago that his municipality had only a few days to prepare for up to 1,000 refugees The "assignment order" from the Hesse state Interior Ministry instructed him to convert three halls in the local Main-Taunus district into emergency refugee shelters County Councilor Cyriax called in the local disaster relief workers The to-do list was long: The halls had to be closed Cyriax declared a "disaster situation" -- the first in the Main-Taunus district since 1945 The arrival of so many refugees was not a "disaster in the generally accepted sense," Cyriax admitted afterwards local authorities can give instructions more quickly and even temporarily overrule obstructive fire safety regulations The mood in the local municipalities is tense More and more trains with refugees are arriving from southern Germany up to a third of refugees are still living in tents Some mayors have cancelled the contracts of tenants in publicly owned apartments in order to house refugees They say that apartments for refugees can only be found for exorbitant prices on the open market mayor of the town of Nieheim in North Rhine-Westphalia Local politicians are finding it difficult to find accommodations for refugees head of the buildings department in the Dieburg district of Darmstadt says he has been offered mildewed apartments and attic rooms only accessible by ladder It's Monday morning in the administrative court in the northern city of Cottbus Refugees rush towards the application center on the ground floor Pre-printed forms have been laid out: applications for the Federal Republic of Germany "to grant asylum." Gregor Nocon has a heap of files on his desk The chief justice compares his situation to that of an emergency medic "When I come to work I have to check what needs to be done right away At the moment he works almost exclusively on asylum cases He recently had to deal with the case of a possibly illegal weekend home It shows that in September 2013 the small Cottbus court dealt with 18 asylum cases -- this September it was 138 Almost all of Germany's administrative courts are having similar experiences -- the number of asylum cases is pushing the country's 1,800 administrative judges to the limits of their capacity Around 40 percent of asylum-seekers appeal against their decisions and the courts are required to reassess every single case A lot of states have decided to hire additional new judges but those in legal circles say that won't be enough "We need 600 additional judges across Germany to cope with all the asylum applications," estimates Robert Seegmüller chairman of the German association of administrative judges And the wave of cases hasn't even reached its peak The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has yet to decide on over 300,000 asylum applications Experts estimate that this stack could grow by another half million by the end of the year Graphic: Average Processing Times for Asylum Applications all the classrooms in the Johanna Wittum School are occupied Only the art room in the basement is still free Fifteen students are sitting at high tables designed for drawing They make the teenagers look more child-like -- vulnerable footballer-inspired haircuts that some of the boys are sporting On the wall hangs an epigram by the French poet and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: "Real miracles make little noise." Whether a miracle occurs in the art room of this technical college in the southwestern town of Pforzheim will only become clear in the coming years -- once these young refugees found a job and been integrated into their host country At the moment these four girls and 11 boys are still right at the start of their journey They're attending a so-called "VABO" class an acronym that stands for "pre-qualification year work and profession no German knowledge." They have several hours of German lessons every day in order to eventually graduate from a regular school or a job training course There are two of these classes in the Johanna Wittum School around 300 in the whole state of Baden-Württemberg The children usually come to these schools once they've left the initial reception centers There are no central bodies that register and distribute students -- the young migrants just turn up one day outside the school gates having been registered at the school by a social worker or a volunteer helper Only a few fit the ideal of the child of a Syrian university graduate The trainee teacher Ouvilia al Kuti has to start from scratch: She sticks signs up on the board: "My name is al Kuti." "I come from Germany." "I speak German." One at a time the students approach the board and repeat the sentences And so it continues: Eva and Andrea from Albania and call out "Ananas," the German word for pineapple Lona and Burhan will be expected to earn their own living and strengthen the German economy as skilled workers But as a recent study by the federal government's Institute for Employment Research (IAB) showed the journey from refugee to skilled worker is a long one Of the refugees aged between 15 and 64 surveyed only 8 percent made it into a job within a year of arrival while 50 percent made it within five years the percentage rose to 70 percent -- almost at the level of the average labor force participation rate knows that integration is a generational challenge: "I can't send young refugees to the job center after one or two years," she says Schaefer says that her school is currently massively over-capacity like many vocational schools across the country Usually it's those schools that normally don't have an easy clientele anyway that end up having to take in refugees -- the university-prep high schools are left out the official body of the education ministers of the 16 German states is expecting some 325,000 additional students across the country through the current refugee influx alone It says it will need some 20,000 additional teachers 17 on a train from Vienna as an unaccompanied minor His family in Damascus sent him on his way English and two other languages and was part of an advanced group in junior karate he heads to the police station to fill out a form the officers call up the youth welfare office the entire support of Germany's youth aid system is supposed to be set in motion for the teenager the standards for youth aid also apply to unaccompanied minor refugees that means a 12-week processing period during which the state determines the level of care needed by newcomers the state of their health and the level of education attained they receive a bed in a single or double room in a youth home or a group home; a custodian at the local youth welfare office with whom they can speak at length once a month; German courses and schooling; and an assistance plan which can help young people become self-sufficient by the time they reach the legal adult age of 18 The entire package is paid for with a per capita sum paid to the manager of the facility where the minor is being sheltered all spaces are occupied and the list of benefits is purely theoretical for Mohammed he has not been assigned a custodian and only gets German language training on Sundays from a volunteer and he is still on a waiting list to get processed He might be subject to a fast-track processing period in a few weeks or months And no assistance plan has been developed for him though an aid worker has tried to put him on the karate team of a local sports club Even if the chancellor remains convinced that Germany can handle the influx of refugees There are no buildings that satisfy the criteria established by the youth welfare office There are insufficient personnel with backgrounds in education because too few students have pursued degrees in the subjects needed the Bavarian Social Affairs Ministry forecast that 500 to 600 unaccompanied minors would arrive He estimates that some 14,000 are currently in Bavaria despite the difficulties of the present situation he warns against lowering standards in response "If we aren't successful in getting these young people a school certificate and stabilizing them this anger with Merkel -- in the conference hall in Schkeuditz on Wednesday evening It's the kind of regional conference that Merkel likes to set up so as to calm ruffled party feathers It's not just the party rank and file who join the debate They say that Merkel opened the gates to the refugees and that she should finally take steps to limit the inflow The participants at the conference in Schkeuditz just outside Leipzig in the eastern state of Saxony are split but the chancellor is also applauded when she defends her policies "My service to Germany is that I try to give honest answers," she says In the conservative caucus in the federal parliament in Berlin more and more lawmakers are joining the ranks of Merkel's detractors a number that is in lockstep with the rising numbers of refugees many more than half of the lawmakers would like to see a different policy," says one parliamentarian who supports the chancellor Merkel's critics also know that there are no simple solutions They want to send a "message to the global public" that even a rich county like Germany can't accept an unlimited number of people who is the head of the Christian Social Union (CSU) But the message is also intended for domestic consumption Many conservative lawmakers would like to see the reintroduction of border controls and want people who have no chance of receiving asylum to be blocked from entering Germany at the border They want the state to demonstrate that it hasn't completely lost control of who enters the country Merkel believes that this is the wrong approach In the meeting with parliamentary conservatives she repeated her conviction that securing borders wouldn't work on a national level CDU domestic policy specialist Armin Schuster contradicted the chancellor a member of parliament from the state of Baden-Württemberg said: "If you are of the opinion that we can't control and reject then I am of a different opinion." Hans-Peter Uhl predicted the end of Merkel's political career if she doesn't change her approach: "When the people realize that the government cannot or will not protect them then the people will elect a different government." Merkel's confidants in the Chancellery had thought that they had the conflict at least temporarily under control Merkel spoke with CSU head Horst Seehofer on the phone and told him that she too would begin openly supporting the idea of creating so-called "transit zones," similar to immigration facilities found at international airports along Germany's borders The zones would be for refugees who are ineligible for refugee status and would enable them to be sent back home immediately with the support of German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière had been demanding the establishment of such zones for the previous two weeks Merkel and conservative floor leader Volker Kauder had previously rejected the idea because they didn't believe such zones were practicable but Merkel wanted to provide an outlet for the widespread dissatisfaction with her policies she was forced to realize that her junior coalition partner following the cabinet meeting at the Chancellery Chief of Staff Peter Altmaier and de Maizière met with SPD cabinet members Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel and Justice Minister Heiko Maas Gabriel made clear: "That won't be done with the SPD." Maas said that "detainment centers on the border" are not acceptable The meeting made it clear that Merkel's effort to make peace with the CSU would fail Nobody in the conservative leadership knows how things might develop from here The dominant feeling is one of helplessness The CDU leadership has presented itself as being solidly behind the chancellor even if it has thus far been kept largely under wraps Hesse Governor Volker Bouffier has praised German President Joachim Gauck but our possibilities are finite." Interior Minister de Maiziére told conservative domestic policy experts at a Wednesday evening meeting that he planned to check if turning back refugees at the border was legally possible Floor leader Kauder has indicated that he wouldn't stand in the way if de Maiziére publicly supported such border controls who until recently publicly supported Merkel's policies this week proposed a reduction of welfare benefits for people living in Germany who have been granted asylum status but aren't working It's precisely those kinds of proposals that haven't been coordinated that irritate officials in Merkel's Chancellery they signal to Merkel that her office needs to act It's in Schäuble's interest for the number of refugees to drop Although Germany is running a budget surplus this year the country may have to start borrowing again as soon as next year as a result of the refugee crisis after having balanced its budget in 2014 and 2015 Schäuble will have a buffer of just under €9 billion in 2016 but that already appears to be insufficient Staff experts in the Finance Ministry are already calculating the costs of managing the refugees at significantly more than €10 billion -- and those are just the costs to the federal government They also believe a construction program for apartments will be inevitable in order to be able to provide housing for the immigrants the states will require far more than the €3 billion in aid they has been pledged by the federal government Internal government estimates suggest that if they can successfully speed up the processing of asylum applications the number of recognized refugees will rise from just under 10,000 a month now to six times that figure The result being that many of these new arrivals will also qualify to draw unemployment benefits -- a bill that will have to be footed by the government it is also expected that Germany will grant several hundred million euros to Turkey in order to help the country provide for the massive number of refugees who have sought refuge there Merkel knows that the pressure will continue to mount Even leaders of the SPD sense that aligning themselves too closely with Merkel's policies could prove disastrous withdrew his membership in the Social Democrats a sign of problems already brewing within the party SPD leaders are warning against a state of "panic." Still "the numbers (of immigrants) has to drop," one says no one in the SPD is calling for Germany's borders to be closed But concerns are indeed growing within the party "We won't be able to continue for another four weeks," says Axel Schäfer the deputy head of the SPD's parliamentary group "We have to maintain the ability to act as a nation." Interior Minister Boris Pistorius has a new plan asylum-seekers and economic migrants who want to enter Germany be filtered through 10 to 12 special entry centers applications for asylum could only be submitted at those centers Anyone trying to circumvent them would be entering the country illegally decisions would have to be made within days to differentiate between those who actually have a chance of getting granted asylum or refugee status those who come from a safe country of origin and those who are just arriving to look for work Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholz and federal Justice Minister Heiko Maas are also expected to develop further proposals for the SPD but provisions are expected that will make it easier to deport people with criminal records or who have alleged to have lost their passports members of the SPD will be watching very closely in the weeks ahead to see if and how quickly Angela Merkel shifts her position many consider it a given that she will have to change her policy "The next party caucus is in three weeks," says CSU domestic policy expert Uhl "If the government hasn't made something happen by then Migrants make their way along the Austrian-German border on Oct 15 -- more than ever before in a comparable time period a train carrying approximately 450 refugees arrives at Mannheim's Central Station The people are then brought to gymnasiums and other halls where temporary emergency housing is being provided The thousands of refugees arriving each day have proven to be a major burden for many German towns Municipalities have had to act quickly in responding to the challenge officials were given 77 hours to convert three halls The refugees are being distributed across the country according to an agreement reached between the federal government and the states many unaccompanied minors who have come to Germany as refugees are being housed It has been estimated that as many as 14,000 unaccompanied minor refugees are currently in the state of Bavaria Many Germans are becoming uncomfortable with the sheer number of refugees coming into the country some 4,000 asylum-seekers are being housed in a village that is home to only 2,500 residents Kathrin and Ralf Meyer (pictured here) are local residents "It's gotten a bit too much for us," says Kathrin too much garbage." The Meyers say they are planning to move out in November That kind of sentiment could spell trouble for German Chancellor Angela Merkel who is feeling increasing political pressure from within her party to stop the flow of immigrants Six weeks after her historic decision to open Germany's border the mood within her own party is quickly shifting Source: Image by Reading Tom Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Calderdale Council is seeking a design team for a major overhaul of public spaces surrounding Todmorden’s historic Market Hall [Deadline: 22 September 2023] The team selected for the estimated £251,000 contract will draw up plans from RIBA Stage 2-to-6 to revamp Bramsche Square which surrounds Todmorden’s 1879 market complex The project – planned to complete in 2026 and supported by the Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities - create a create a flexible town square and public realm capable of supporting a range of events while also removing some car parking and improving the pedestrian experience Additional aims include improving access to the Market Hall exploring options for harnessing renewable energy for the market reducing anti-social behaviour and minimising the impact of local flooding According to the brief: ‘The project aims to deliver changes to Bramsche Square and adjoining areas surrounding the Market Hall to create a vibrant and green town square in the centre of Todmorden that supports a thriving local economy and cultural sector encourages more visitors to the town and promotes walking and cycling over the use of private vehicles.’ Calderdale is a large 363.9km2 borough with around 203,000 people on the southern fringes of the Yorkshire Dales Principal settlements within the former woollen manufacturing area include Halifax The search for a design team comes three months after Calderdale Council started procurement for a new £14.4 million built environment consultancy framework covering a range of sustainable new-build Bids will be evaluated 70 per cent on quality and 30 per cent on cost TagsCalderdale Council Civic competition framework agreements Public realm Hutchison Ports is recruiting a design team for its new £9 million… An open international contest is being held for a major €27.5 million… An international design and build contest is being held for 25 new… The UK Research and Innovation Science and Technology Facilities Council (UKRI-STFC) has… and Irish senior basketball international player Adrian O’Sullivan has just signed his third professional basketball contract with Spanish side Aquimisa Carbajosa of the Liga Espanolo de Baloncesto (LEB Silver) Aquimisa Carbajosa is located in the beautiful Carbajosa de la Sagraga in the province of Salamanca on the North western coast of Spain who spent his last two years playing professionally with Reading Rocket’s ( England) and Bramsche Red Devils ( Germany) Before moving into the professional ranks Adrian started out play all his underage basketball with Ballincollig in the Cork local Leagues before moving to Blue Demons where he had a very successful spell with the Northside club and went on to win multiple National League trophies Bramsche's Adrian O'Sullivan in action for the Red Devils in the German Regionalliga Nord against Aschersleben Tigers “The team name of my new club is Aquimisa Carbajosa they are from Salamanca in Spain,” said Adrian “The move came about through an contact with a Spanish agent during lockdown "I reached out to the agent and we spoke about possible moves LEB Silver is the name of the league I’ll will be playing in this year and very skilled game with a lot of quick guards and outside shooters "With all going well I’ll be on a flight to Madrid and onward to Salamanca at the end of August for a week of pre-season before the season starts early October.”  his boyhood club Ballincollig were recently promoted to the men’s SuperLeague for the coming season “The last couple of years the lads in Ballincollig have had great success and of course you want to be a part of that "There’s nothing like success with the boys you’ve grown up with and I toyed with the idea of staying at home this season more so than others as they are now headed into the SuperLeague there’s plenty of time for that in the future I’ve been lucky enough to have some great experiences playing abroad and playing in a league like LEB Silver will be both a great challenge as the level of basketball will be a lot higher than he would have been accustomed to in his previous clubs “The goals for the new season as a team will of course to be playing at a high level like most but also playing our best basketball come the post season "I’m excited for the new opportunity and looking forward to the season ahead,” O’Sullivan added Keep up-to-date with the top stories in Cork with our daily newsletter straight to your inbox Please click here for our privacy statement. 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