Torchwood tv star visits medical manufacturer
Gloucestershire's largest business employer, Renishaw, may find its New Mills headquarters starring in a new television documentary after hosting a visit from John Barrowman (pictured), the star of well-known programmes such as Torchwood, Tonight's the Night and Doctor Who.
This week's visit to New Mills, near Wotton-under-Edge, formed part of Barrowman's research into a potential TV documentary for his production company Barrowman Barker Productions about new medical procedures to treat degenerative diseases, such as Parkinsons.
The visit included an overview of Renishaw's advanced engineering technologies and the way that these are being applied to new applications within the world of neurosurgery. Barrowman was accompanied by his brother-in-law Professor Steven Gill, who is a world-leading neurosurgeon based at Frenchay hospital, Bristol, where the first of Renishaw's new enhanced surgical robots has recently been installed.
