Profits nearly treble at Northern building firm John Graham Holdings

Pre-tax profits at Northern-based building and engineering group, John Graham Holdings increased almost three-fold to £17.16m (€20.5m) in its last financial year.

Revenues at the Hillsborough-based group increased by 3.5% to £507m in the 12 months to the end of March.

Numbers employed by the group last year increased from 1,645 to 1,761.