POCHIN'S pre-tax profits have risen to £3.9 million, the firm has revealed.

Chairman Nicholas Pochin, from the Middlewich-based construction company, said the results were due to increased efficiency.

Pochin has bought an extra 150 acres of land at its Midpoint 18 industrial park, in Cheshire.

And its specialist concrete pumping division remains the UK leader - with major orders already secured for the Channel Tunnel rail link.

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