A LEIGH company has won one of ten highly commended awards in a national BT competition.

Dental Linkline has won £1,000 off its BT business phone calls in the 1995 Winning Communications Awards.

The company supplies dental equipment to thousands of surgeries over the UK using a Freefone 0800 number to take customer orders and enquiries.

Judges were impressed by the way it uses modern communications in an innovative way to improve the business.

The awards - backed by the Federation of Small Businesses - recognise the importance of communications to business success.

Lancashire retailer J S Walker & Sons won the £25,000 top prize.

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