Help! I need somebody, not just anybody. I need a man with a 1970s Coventry Climax. David Woods, managing director of Acclaim Handling is a man on a mission.

Dave Lunt has been appointed operations manager for the Haydock department of Rhys Davies Freight Logistics. Lunt brings more than 25 years experience in the distribution industry to the role.

‘Image’ is one of those words that seems to have changed its meaning over the past few years, or at least got a new focus in everyday language in the 21st century.

The price of sheds today! Land prices in the prime market around Heathrow have soared. Price rises are demand driven: there isn’t enough land to build on. So at ProLogis we have started to look for a solution to this problem.

The overflow of national occupiers from the Midlands, looking for available sites and workforces, means that locations such as Skelmersdale are mentioned freely and without the hint of a smirk in conversations that usually centre around Northampton.

Like the paparazzi surrounding celebrities, agents and developers are crowding round the warehouse market in the southern part of the M1. And like the paparazzi, they are creating problems for themselves.

The whole of SladenAston’s 650,000 sq ft refurbishment in Doncaster is under offer to a fashion retailer.

Frontier Estates is rumoured to be close to buying the IKEA site at Grange Park, Northampton, for a sum believed to be around £600,000 per acre.

The opening of Bibby’s newly-completed 625,000 sq ft warehouse in Scunthorpe coincides with it winning a contract with convenience store group Nisa Today worth £200m.

Furniture recycling charity Green-Works has opened a new 32,000 sq ft warehouse in Wembley on the back of a major contract with Barclays Bank. The bank donated 2,500 tonnes of furniture for recycling following its move to a new headquarters in April.