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Pilot Douglas Jones, 27, was enjoying his dream job, working for Aegean Airlines and living in Greece, when the pandemic began last spring - and borders began to close.

Fearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks learned his job was gone.

Back home, in the small Scottish town of Moffat, in Dumfries and Galloway, he found himself “desperate to do something”.

"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown," he says.

It was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).

It certainly marked a change of pace – the nine-to-five office-based routine was difficult to adjust to for someone accustomed to navigating the skies of Europe – but Douglas says he was "surprised" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.

"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well," he says.

While looking forward to returning to the skies one day, he adds: “I have learned a huge amount here.

“There are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that."