A FORMER trainee has been appointed to a top management position at the dairy where she began her career more than 30 years ago.

Judy Brennand has been made technical manager at The Wensleydale Creamery, in North Yorkshire. She has responsibility for the creamery’s two sites, at Hawes and Kirkby Malzeard.

She has been promoted from factory manager at Kirkby Malzeard, where she started her career in 1976 as a Milk Marketing Board management trainee.

Mrs Brennand was raised on a farm near Masham.

She said: “My technical knowledge of diary hygiene began at a very young age when I used to help with the milking on my parents’ farm.”