Heating controls specialist Salus Controls is mourning the loss of its technical operations director, Les Roberts who collapsed and died.
The 28 year-old collapsed and died suddenly on Saturday October 3rd. As yet, the cause of Les' death is still being investigated.

Les Roberts joined the Barnsley-based heating firm Salus in 2006 and his talents saw him quickly rise to the role of technical operations director. Les was shortly to leave the UK to take up a new product manager's position with the firm's parent company in Hong Kong.

Prior to his departure, he was nominated for The Salus Award for Excellence in recognition of his high standards and efficiency of workmanship during his time with the UK team.

As staff at Salus come to terms with Les' death, management has confirmed it plans to celebrate Les' life and achievements at the company.

Salus' managing director, Dean Jepson said: 'During his time at Salus, Les demonstrated his total commitment to the company. Indeed, no one could have shown more excitement and enthusiasm for Salus' growing success, in which he played a major part. Les was one of the most amiable people one could ever wish to meet and his warmth and kindness touched everyone around him. He will be sadly missed by all, but never forgotten.'