SENIOR administrator Maureen Bayliss has been presented with a 25-year long service award by bosses at the ST Group, formerly Sutton Timber.

Maureen has been with the company since its early days when she started as one of its first members of office staff at Hoghton Road, Sutton, the former head office of the business.

And her long service award coincides with semi-retirement as Maureen is giving her up her full-time job to take up a new part-time position as the company's personnel officer.

Chairman of ST Group, Bill Jelley, and director, Dorothy Jelley, presented Maureen with a watch to celebrate her 25 years service.

In his presentation speech, Bill said: "Every company needs people who work tirelessly for the business with honesty and dedication. Maureen is most certainly one of those people. We wish her well in her semi-retirement and every happiness for the future."