Engineering firm bought for £90m

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County Fermanagh steel firm Fisher Engineering is in the process of being sold to an English company in a deal worth £90m.

Fisher says its 250 staff employed in Ballinamallard will be retained by the new owners, Severfield Rowan.

The company's former managing director, the rally driver Bertie Fisher, was killed in a helicopter crash in 2001.

The company was founded by Tommy Fisher in 1950 as a blacksmith's workshop servicing the local farming community.

Today the business is seen as one of the leading structural steel fabricators in Europe and includes Belfast's Castlecourt Shopping Centre, Waterfront Concert Hall and the Odyssey Arena among its project portfolio.