Latest business appointments

YORKSHIRE and north-east-based law firm Coles Solicitors has added two appointments to its conveyancing team.

Kelly Buckle-Fleming joins as head of conveyancing and will be based at the group’s Thirsk branch, while newly appointed conveyancer Dorothy Price is based at its Northallerton office.

In the coming months the business expects to grow its 30-strong workforce further and is also planning to open a new office within the North East as it continues its expansion.

The firm, founded in 2007, has also enlisted Laurence Daniels to its Thirsk office as a personal injury (PI) and clinical negligence consultant solicitor.

Mr Daniels has 20 years of experience as a lawyer and previously ran his own practice, Daniels & Company, from 2005 to 2010, before selling it to Coles.

• A North Yorkshire renewable energy company has recruited a new member of its sales force as the Government switches its “green emphasis” to biomass technology.

Harrogate-based Clean Energy Yorkshire has employed Jamie Chappell to its team, as it begins a major campaign to promote its wide range of environmentally-friendly products to households and businesses across the north of England.

• Theatrical and event set designer Stage One has appointed Adam Wildi to its senior management team.

Mr Wildi joins the Tockwith-based creative construction and manufacturing company as senior project director and will take specific responsibility for demountable structures and architecture.

• Car finance company Oracle Finance has boosted its marketing team with the appointment of Katie Mitchell, a graduate from Oxford Brooks University, who has taken the role of marketing co-ordinator. The firm, which underwrites £250 million of funding each year, is based on Whitfield Business Park, Knaresborough, and has offices in London and Glasgow.

• Skipton Financial Services (SFS) has appointed Selby man Robert Taylor as its new Training & Development Supervisor for the North East of England.

SFS, which specialises in investments and inheritance tax planning, is a subsidiary of Skipton Building Society.

• Newly merged law firm Lupton Fawcett Denison Till has recruited a former head of litigation at BHP Law to work within its dispute management practice in York and North Yorkshire as it begins a recruitment drive in the region.

Paul Sykes, who is recognised as a leading litigator in the Legal 500 and in The Good Lawyer Guide, joins a team made up by more than 20 directors and executives across Lupton Fawcett Denison Till’s three offices in York, Leeds and Sheffield.

• HARROGATE-based quantity surveyors Cooper & Hall has recruited two trainee quantity surveyors and an office administrator to help cope with a continuing increase in business at its offices in Pannal Business Park.

Trainees Richard Wilcock and Joseph Wright both join the business while studying for part time degrees.

Meanwhile, Helen Porter has joined the company as the office administrator to provide assistance to the 11-strong team.