Wells resigned from Sunbury-based CTD following several redundancies made at the firm by its owner Leonard Wheatley last Friday. He was released from his contract yesterday (15 November).

He claimed he felt unable to remain at the firm following the eight redundancies, of which he claimed he had no prior knowledge, and which included recently recruited marketing and client services director Sarah Daly.

Wells added that he was looking forward with enthusiasm to joining Croydon-based Royle, a long-standing competitor of CTD. "It will be a pleasure to have their quality of work, financial strength, state of the art equipment and technical abilities on my side," he said.