"The ball came her way and the lads turned a bit macho," recalls the centre manager Shaun Aldred. But since Hannah used to play for West Ham Ladies, she was more than a match for her male colleagues. "She got hold of the ball and jaws fell open," says Aldred.
The 23-year-old is the only female apprentice at the Acton centre and one of only nine scattered around British Gas's seven engineering training centres in England and Scotland. She and the other girls make up just under two per cent of the company's 471 apprentices. This proportion may be tiny, but it is the result of ongoing efforts by the company to encourage more young women into engineering.
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