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JCB fanatic who went on national television to tell how he dreamt of one day being a digger driver has been given £2,000 (US$3,942) worth of training by the company.
Mark Bieliauskas, of Weoley Castle, Birmingham, England, persuaded panelists on the ITV show “Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway” to part with £2,500 (US$4,927) to pay for him to learn how to operate a JCB backhoe loader. But knowing that 25-year-old Bieliauskas would need capital to buy equipment if his plans to run his own plant company one day came to fruition, JCB has told him to put the ITV money to one side. Instead, JCB will pay for him to train at the National Construction College, in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England.