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Guest appearance on KMTV by Steve Hodges
Astro Chief Executive, Steve Hodges was delighted to join Katya Fowler on the Kent Business Show. They talked about issues affecting Kent Businesses such as Freedom Day and The Open and a lovely story about a 9 year old...
Read moreAstro…always learning…always growing…always helping
Our clients know Sarah Smith as the safest pair of hands you can find as our Head of Service Management, but alongside her full-time, senior management team role with Astro, Sarah has been doing something incredible to help us...
Read moreLightning XR724 – The story continues, kind of
So much for quarterly updates on the progress made on XR724! Like very much the rest of the world, our ambitions and plans for the renovation ground to a halt back in March. For an elderly aircraft who lives...
Read moreLife at the Lottie
Steve Holmes (Sherlock) is one of our most technical credible and capable members of staff. As team leader of our systems team they manage, maintain and develop some extremely complex environments for our customers. On top of this he...
Read moreThe Simple Things
What did you do in lockdown? I wish I had a pound for every time someone asked me “how have you been affected by COVID-19” or even “have you been affected by COVID-19?” I am not an avid news...
Read moreWork Hard, Play Harder… Lockdown Style
Day 77 – 11 weeks in and the new ‘normal’ has started to evolve. Roads are busier, non-essential shops are starting to open and some schools are welcoming back children on limited timetables in smaller class sizes. Over the...
Read moreApprenticeships offer amazing opportunities, just ask Nathan Lee
National Apprenticeship Week 2020 – Nathan Lee Today sees the start of National Apprenticeship Week and there are almost 400 events celebrating apprenticeships around England. These include: open days, award presentations and engagements with schools and colleges. I started...
Read moreTime to hear the Lightning roar
I am one of life’s fortunate few, by that I mean I got to do the thing I always wanted to do and for me that was to work on fast jets. Once it was pointed out to me...
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The Explosion, the Mentor and the Apprentice
This week is National Apprenticeship Week and as I am so passionate about apprenticeships I thought it might be a good time to share my story. I was an only child being raised by my mother who had to...
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