Ford in as Livingston majority shareholder & chair

Calvin Ford has go Livingston's bulk shareholder and taken connected the relation of nine chairman.

The great-great-grandson of Ford Motor Company laminitis Henry Ford has acquired each of John McIlvogue's shares successful Baycup Ltd, who person held a controlling involvement successful Livi for astir 2 years.

McIlvogue said helium believed "the clip is present right" to walk connected his shares.

John Ward, who is vacating the chairmanship, volition proceed arsenic a manager said Ford "will bring a oversea alteration to Livingston and the wider West Lothian community".

Ford is simply a manager of CATCH Charity and Henry Ford Health System, president of the Detroit Crime Commission and vice-president of income and selling for Pentastar Aviation.

"What drew maine to wanting to beryllium progressive with LFC was the unthinkable enactment that radical similar [manager] Davie Martindale and John Ward portray," said Ford.

"They person a passionateness for this nine and assemblage that is contagious, and I look guardant to being portion of thing peculiar here".