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The first zero-emission coaches for operators in the North of England have been handed over, with a further example for one of those operators to follow early in 2023.  

Coatham Coaches of Saltburn-by-the-Sea and Swans Travel of Chadderton were each presented with their respective Yutong TCe12s at Euro Bus Expo. Swans has a second on order, while the first example has debuted a refreshed brand for the Greater Manchester business.  

Both the existing coaches, and the forthcoming example for Swans, are for corporate contracts. Coatham Coaches will use its example seven days per week on a shuttle for a client with policies that require a reduction in car traffic to its site. The customer asked Coatham if it could provide a zero-emission vehicle “and we said yes,” says the operator’s Managing Director Mark Hodgson (pictured above, left).

Mr Hodgson adds that there are early signs of demand for the same from other customers, with the wider focus on net zero industry on Teesside a key to that. He thus does not rule out further TCe12s in the future.  

Coatham Coaches has taken a 42kW portable charger from vehicle supplier Pelican Bus and Coach to work with the first TCe12. The charger works with a 60A, three-phase workshop supply. Coatham previously assessed a demonstrator TCe12, and Mr Hodgson says that vehicle was well received by drivers.

Swans’ first TCe12 will be used for a corporate client in Cheshire.

Day-to-day charging will be undertaken at the customer’s site, which has suitable equipment. The second TCe12 for Swans is expected in March 2023.  

“The coach industry has to be first foot forward with zero-emission,” says Swans Travel Managing Director Elise Robertson (lower picture, left). “Let’s lead the way, but not by pressuring clients. Instead, we should find a way to interest them in the technology.”  

Swans held back the debut of its new brand until the first TCe12 was ready, she adds. It will be rolled out across the remainder of the fleet in due course.

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The team from Harrison Holidays have been putting their best feet forward with some fundraising pursuits that have seen them embarking on trekking, walking and marathoning adventures.  This has all been in aid of some local charities close to their hearts.

First out of the blocks was Elise Robertson , who is Group Finance Director and a new member of the Harrison Holidays team.  In May she took on what’s described as “England’s toughest mountain challenge”, aptly named Lakes 3000 , because all the summits top 3,000 feet.  The aim is to complete Scafell Pike (3210ft), Scafell (3209ft), Helvellyn (3120ft) and Skiddaw (3050ft) within 12 hours, which this year’s participants smashed in 11 hours.

Lakes 3000 is an annual trek organised by the Chronicle Sunshine Fund , a North East charity that provides specialist and adapted equipment to children aged 0-19 living with disabilities, additional needs, chronic and terminal illness.

​A fun party atmosphere got things underway for Elaine Stocker , who set off on the Star Trekk almost at the same time as Elise was completing her trek in the Lakes.  Taking in the bright lights of Southport, she joined hundreds of other walkers on a seven mile moonlit walk around the town and surrounding area all to raise funds for Queenscourt Hospice .  As the walkers made their way around the nearby villages, including Birkdale and not too far from Riverside Holiday Park where Elaine is based as a Holiday Home Owners Administrator, they were greeted by the pink ribbons adorning trees and buildings to welcome and support them.

Queenscourt Hospice supports the communities of West Lancashire, Southport and Formby and this is the 17th year that Star Trekk has taken place, but the first time that Elaine has participated. Elaine has been part of the Harrison Holidays family for 23 years and although she’s not done anything like the trek before thoroughly enjoyed taking part.

Our third wonderful member of the Harrison Holidays team is in the throes of a full on training routine as he prepares for a 50 mile linear run across the heart of the Lake District, known as the Lakeland 50 .  Alex Atkinson is an inspiration.  Amazingly, it was only in 2020 that he started running when he was looking for something to keep himself occupied during the Covid lockdown.  Beginning at a 5k run, it wasn’t long before he was reaching 10k and kept increasing his targets, progressing to half marathons and then on to the full marathon distance and beyond.

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By day Alex is in charge of stock control and finance at Harrison Holidays’ head office in Southport, but running is such a passion that you may see him out training.  His favourite holiday park for running is Percy Wood because he enjoys the Northumberland countryside and the nearby coastline and endless trails.

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Storyteller Elise Robertson pushes the boundaries of digital narrative in her solo work about environmentalist Rachel Carson. Appearing as part of Unmuted Participants' First Annual SOLO FLIGHT, an Online Festival Running April 10 -May 10. Writer/actor/director Elise Robertson unravels her own coming-of-age in an attempt to get to the truth about environmental icon and fellow Pittsburgher Rachel Carson's nature in her digital solo show Imagining Rachel.

Rachel Carson is known for exposing the damage that pesticides were doing to man and nature both, but fiercely guarded her own privacy. She hid her battle with breast cancer even as her book Silent Spring called out DDT as a carcinogen, fearing she would be labeled hysterical (she was anyway). She also hid the truth about her niece's out-of-wedlock child (whom she later adopted), and her relationship with Maine neighbor Dorothy Freeman.

Growing up less than 12 miles from Rachel, 40 years later, Elise interweaves her own life experience to provide counterpoint, context, and comic relief. In this two-hour show, she plays both women as they bend time to connect at different ages and share their experiences as women, environmentalists, artists, and mothers. Is art selfish? What is a heroic act? Where does nature end and humanity begin?

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Developed during the pandemic, Imagining Rachel was conceived and staged by Robertson in her tiny backyard studio using an eclectic mix of found props, greenscreen backgrounds, stop motion animation, multiple zoom screens, and more. The result is a groundbreaking digital storytelling experience-a whimsical, immersive journey that feels both sweeping and intimate, in which Robertson plays multiple characters over the course of a century, all without leaving her office chair.

As a filmmaker, Elise Robertson is known for her dramatic adaptations of literary works for PBS, directing dark feature-length period thriller Donner Pass, and her feminist re-imagining of the Peter Pan story, Darling, Darling, Wendy. Many audiences will recognise Robertson from her acting work, including Academy Award nominated film American Sniper, as well as hit television series' NCIS, Masters of Sex, This is Us and many more. She recurs in upcoming Amazon Studios series The Power. A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native, Robertson graduated from Northwestern University's Theatre department with a minor in fine art.

Imagining Rachel is Elise's first solo show. It was developed in the Los Angeles based online solo collective Unmuted Participants, where Robertson is a founding member. In 2021 the piece toured digitally to the Edinburgh Fringe and 2022 sees it visit the New Zealand and Brighton Fringes digitally, in addition to its current festival.

Showing as part of Unmuted Participants First Annual Online Solo Flight: a collection of Solo Performances, it will be available online, on-demand beginning April 10 and will have an interactive Premiere Showing with talkback via Zoom on April 20 at 7 PM PST in honor of Earth Day.

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Elise Robertson is a multi-faceted storyteller with experience directing and appearing in projects in a range of media. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, she graduated from Northwestern University's theatre department where she studied directing, acting and literary adaptation, and minored in fine art. She has gone on to work extensively in all of these disciplines, and brings her varied skills to her work in any media. She directed the feature-length dark thriller Donner Pass, which had a wide digital distribution in 2012 and aired on Showtime. In 2015, Elise was recognized as a notable Woman in Horror by Horror Society. She's also directed extensively in the LA theatre scene. A few especially memorable productions were her Garland Award-nominated 2008 revival of The Women and her world premiere comedy Sister Cities that traveled to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it garnered multiple 5 star reviews.

Prior to moving to LA, Elise worked extensively in the Bay Area. She directed and executive produced the PBS series American Storytellers, featuring dramatic adaptations of famous American short stories, for which she earned numerous awards, including a Cine-Golden Eagle for Ralph Ellison's King of the Bingo Game. She also helmed the PBS children's series Adventures With Kanga-Roddy, a multi-camera show featuring actors, puppets and full-sized suited characters, for which she won a Northern California Directing Emmy.

Elise began her career in the film industry as a character painter on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, and went on to do scenic work on numerous features. She was Art Department Supervisor on ABC's Bump in the Night and ran her own model and character shop with clients ranging from Will Vinton Studios to Sony and Atari.

As a working actor for the past fourteen years, she has appeared in dozens of TV shows, films and commercials; American Sniper, Arrested Development, The Mentalist, Sons of Anarchy, Six Feet Under to name just a few.

Transitioning into new media, Elise recently directed a comedy web series Nick Mom entitled The Wisdom of Children in 2014. She's also created a slew of sketch comedy offerings for her youtube channel MomMayhem, including The Sex Negotiators, The PTA Rap, The Literal Police, and the series Mommy Tell Me A Story which won Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Actress at LA Webfest 2014.

She is also the mother of two amazing girls, Stella and Sadie, for whom she recently wrote her debut novel The Hatching Stone. A fantasy story for mid-grade readers, The Hatching Stone won the Echo Park Novel Writing Competition in 2014.

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Public Event | One-Woman Play about Rachel Carson featuring Elise Robertson

Chatham University Spring 2024 Barbara Stone Hollander '60 Lecture in Women’s Leadership featuring Writer, Actor, and Director Elise Robertson

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Mar 19, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Eddy Theater, Shadyside Campus, Chatham, Woodland Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA

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Explore Silent Spring author Rachel Carson’s nature in this wildly  inventive solo show by fellow Pittsburgher Elise Robertson, who uses  puppets, found objects, and stage wizardry to interweave her own messy  coming-of-age with Rachel’s, as they struggle with their identities as  artists, mothers, and truth-tellers.

See more and register: https://chatham.edu/events/details.cfm?eventid=32386 

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Actress Elise Robertson was most commonly known for her roles in television dramas. Robertson kickstarted her acting career appearing on various television sitcoms, including "Gilmore Girls" (2000-07), "Miss Match" (NBC, 2003-04) and "Two and a Half Men" (CBS, 2003-2015). In the early 2000s, she shifted her entertainment career towards more dramatic roles, appearing on "Criminal Minds" (CBS, 2005-), "True Blood" (HBO, 2008-2014) and "Flash Forward" (ABC, 2009-2010). Later, she earned a role in "The Good Humor Man" (2005) with Nathan Stevens. More recently, she tackled roles on "NCIS: Los Angeles" (2009-), "Rizzoli & Isles" (TNT, 2009-16) and "Parenthood" (NBC, 2009-2015). She also appeared in "Teen Wolf" (MTV, 2010-). Robertson most recently acted in the Bradley Cooper box office smash dramatic adaptation "American Sniper" (2014).

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Endoscopy Vet Referrals was started by Dr Elise Robertson 15 years ago, with the aim of providing high-quality, efficient and accessible peripatetic services for veterinary practices in East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, North London, SE London, SW London and Central London. As a mobile referral consultant, Elise travels to the referring practice to perform out-patient canine and feline endoscopy procedures.

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Elise graduated, with honours, from Colorado State University (1998) and The Royal Veterinary College, U of London (2003). She operates a peripatetic endoscopy & endosurgery referral service (canine & feline) for first opinion and referral practices in SE England. She also operates quarterly referral clinics in the Middle East and SE Asia including United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. She regularly lectures and provides practical endoscopy courses on both national and international platforms including UK, USA, Sweden, Finland, Germany, UAE, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia. 

Elise has received her formal post-graduate training in medical endoscopy, interventional endoscopy and ‘key hole’ surgery from well-known human paediatric & neonatology endoscopy hospitals as well as veterinary academic institutions based in the UK (Royal Free NHS Hampstead, London), France, Germany, Italy (Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital & European Endoscopy Training Centre, Rome), United States and Thailand (Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Children’s Hospital, Bangkok).

Elise currently divides her time between clinical work, teaching/lecturing and publishing within the subjects of feline medicine, endoscopy & endosurgery. She lectures for ISFM/University of Sydney Distance Education Course in Feline Medicine, co-lecturer (CE Endoscopy & Endosurgery courses) at Translational Medicine Institute at Colorado State University, and visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Veterinary Science, in Bangkok. She has a particular passion for delivering practical feline medicine and endoscopy/endosurgery education, for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, on a global scale. She’s a recipient of the 2017 BSAVA Frank Beatty Travel Scholarship, 2018 BSAVA PetSavers Award for her meritorious contributions as a veterinary surgeon in small animal veterinary practice and awarded Fellow Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for her contributions to the advancement of veterinary endoscopy education.

After meeting Elise at a clinic in Epsom, Nicola has been working with endoscopy vet referrals since 2017 as Elise’s PA. Originally from South Africa, she immigrated to the UK in 2010 and worked as a veterinary nurse in various capacities from referral centers, Head Nursing and locuming for 11 years in and around London. Through working at a number of clinics, Nicola gained a great deal of experience in various forms of clinical practice. Since leaving the nursing profession in 2020, she moved to Spain and eventually landed back in South Africa where she continued to manage all the bookings for cases from over 150 practices around London, South East England, Singapore and beyond! Please feel free to contact Nicola with any referrals or enquiries about our services!

AKC BSc MB BS PgDip (Med Eth Law) PGCME FRCS (ORL-HNS) DPhil. Consultant ENT Surgeon Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Prof Bhutta has extensive experience in tympanomastoidectomy (both “back-to-front” and “front-to-back” approaches), ossiculoplasty, stapedotomy, and hearing implants, and Eustachian tuboplasty. After completing training, he spent 5 months training the first mastoid surgeons in Cambodia, and then took up consecutive College Memorial Fund and TWJ Otology Fellowships in Western Australia, delivering otological care to remote Aboriginal communities, alongside work in Perth furthering expertise in hearing implants. More recently, he has branched into the veterinary world, and pioneered image guidance and endoscopic surgery to remove cholesteatoma in dogs. His academic interests lie in chronic otitis media. During training he’d completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford as a Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow and Phizackerley Scholar at Balliol College, exploring molecular mechanisms in chronic otitis media, and ran the largest study in the world on otitis media genetics. He was subsequently appointed NIHR Clinical Lecturer at UCL Ear Institute, then visiting fellow at the University of Western Australia, and finally Chair in ENT at Brighton & Sussex Medical School. He has delivered many invited national and international lectures, authored over 150 journal articles, two books and several book chapters, and won numerous research awards. He is consultant to the programme for the prevention of deafness and hearing loss at the World Health Organisation, where he is developing their ear care training. He has trained health workers in ear and hearing care in Cambodia, Zambia, Fiji, Bangladesh and South Africa.   

Prof Bhutta’s other professional projects centre on sustainable healthcare. His initial work was on labour rights in the production and supply of medical goods. He founded a multi award-winning group at the International Department of the British Medical Association, which I continue to lead, and work with UK government, NHS procurement hubs, NGOs and International procurement and policy institutions to foster better working conditions in healthcare supply chains to the UK and internationally, including for surgical instruments, medical gloves, and healthcare textiles. He has given a TED talk on this issue, and published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, British Medical Journal, and the Lancet. More recently he has worked on environmental sustainability in healthcare, co-lead the Green strategy at his hospital Trust, and has been invited to chair a national report on sustainable surgery. 

In 2006 Mahmood founded the Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group (hosted at the British Medical Association) in response to labour rights abuses in the manufacture of medical products, including surgical instruments, gloves and textiles. He works with the NHS, and international procurement organisations and NGOs, to foster better working conditions in healthcare supply chains