Interpreter work for immigrants

Lincolnshire's immigrant workers could benefit from a new scheme to provide translation services.

It is being set up by the Community Foundation Trust in Grantham.

The trust is using government and charity funding to train members of international communities in the county to become interpreters.

It said the interpreters would become financially self-supporting within a year and offer cheaper services than those presently available.

Organiser Gordon Hunter said: "They'd be people who would formerly have been working as care assistants or in packing sheds or on the fields, earning minimum rates or worse. "People like that, who've probably got brilliant qualifications as teachers of English back in their own countries can be used by us as interpreters and we'll be paying them three or four times their previous rate."