Top business award delight
A ROTHERHAM entrepreneur who set up a novelty online shop has seen his firm named as one of the UK's top businesses in the 2009 Barclays Trading Places Awards.
Two years after losing his job and six months after receiving his third pacemaker Patrick Gillespie, aged 56, was finding it hard getting an interview, let alone finding full or part-time employment.
But thanks to advice and a grant, Patrick launched online firm.adoptajellybaby.com - a website offering jelly babies as a novelty gift, packaged individually in boxes ready for 'adoption'.
Each category winner in the Trading Places Awards will walk away with 5,000 for their business.
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