Voting figures for the Britain's Got Talent 2023 final have been revealed and show just how big Viggo Venn's win was despite backlash from viewers and booing from the show's live audience.
17.05.2023 - 11:47 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
More than £3.5m was owed by a Covid-19 testing firm when it collapsed into administration despite earning millions from the pandemic.
At its height, Circular 1 Health had employed 300 people, turning over more than £35m and achieving a pre-tax profit of £6.4m. However, the company entered administration in March when Gary Lee and Kenneth Pattullo of Begbies Traynor were appointed to oversee the process.
When it collapsed Circular 1 Health, which had operations in Manchester and Carlisle, had shrunk down to employ just over 40 people.
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Now, newly-filed documents with Companies House have revealed how much the business owed to its creditors when it entered administration and the reasons why it collapsed.
The company was established in June 2020 having secured its first contract in the month before.
A statement sent to Begbies Traynor by company director Stuart MacLennan said: "Throughout the height of the Covid pandemic the company worked closely with clients to deliver a service that allowed it to maintain ongoing activity in key programmes by keeping staff at work and ultimately safe through continued screening.
"Included in this model, the company spent four months working with Mitie for the Department of Health and Social Care to seek to help stand up a mobile programme to support countrywide mass screening requirements.
"This evolved as the pandemic did to then support a business-to-business and business-to-customer capacity to some key travel providers allowing people to travel safe in the knowledge of Covid status.
"In essence the company spent 2020 and 2021 working with clients to deliver key screening and testing services, including the
Voting figures for the Britain's Got Talent 2023 final have been revealed and show just how big Viggo Venn's win was despite backlash from viewers and booing from the show's live audience.
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