Lockdown encourages change of career.

A former scrapyard worker who began making garden planters while he was furloughed from his job during Covid said he was proud he turned boredom into a business.

Bob Williams bought timber and tools and started producing planters from his shed during lockdown, as he said he could not sit around.

The 50-year-old, who ended up quitting his job to meet demand, now has a workshop in Stoke-on-Trent creating a range of handmade wooden products, and has converted part of the unit into a shop.