BOSSES of a former Horwich recycling firm have been banned from going into business again for several years after their company went to the wall.

Charles Kenyon of Warrington and Paul Armstrong of Little Scotland, Blackrod, have been disqualified from acting as directors at Bury County Court.

Today, the men said they had pulled out of another recycling business on the same site at Chorley New Road, Horwich.

They were taken to court by the Department of Trade and Industry's Insolvency Service after Recycled Waste Management Ltd of Horwich, went into voluntary liquidation in December 1993 owing creditors £213,370.

Mr Kenyon was banned from becoming a director or managing a company for two years and Mr Armstrong four years.

Mr Armstrong, who was also found guilty of unfit conduct in relation Armstrong's Wigan (Ltd) which was wound up in 1992 owing £221,999.

Magistrates were told the men made a misapplication of Recycled Waste Management Funds by paying creditors of a related company; continued to trade when there was no reasonable prospect of creditors being paid; financed the company business through revenues collected on behalf of the Crown -tax, PAYE and NI contributions.

Mr Armstrong was further found guilty of financing Armstrong's Wigan Out of Crown revenues and issuing cheques that would not be honoured.

Mr Kenyon founded another company Recycled Waste Development Ltd on the same Horwich foundry site and in December 1995 told the BEN £1 million had been invested in the plant and machinery since the business started in 1993.

At the time Paul Armstrong was the site manager of the new company but today Mr Kenyon said neither man was involved in running the business.

He said his role in the company was clerical and Mr Armstrong had left the firm completely.

He said: "We came out some time ago. We are owned by another company -Armstrong's Transport. It has the same name but is nothing to do with the previous company."

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