Meet our team
Clinical Team
Bill May
BVSc CertCHP DBR MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon/Director
Bill joined the Practice in 2000 from an established farm practice in Macclesfield. He is a respected dairy vet, being an examiner for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He has particular expertise in calf rearing, mastitis and cell count management.
Email:bill.may@llmvets.co,.uk
Mobile:07968 318493
Den Leonard
BVSc DBR MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon/Director
Den qualified from Liverpool with Charlie, and soon joined him as a farm vet in Nantwich. In 1999, he and Charlie founded the Practice. Den’s veterinary interests are cattle fertility work, infectious diseases and nutrition.
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Email:den.leonard@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07970 267494
Simon King
BVM&S DBR MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon/Director
Simon first worked in farm practice in North Wales before going to New Zealand for two years. He joined the Practice in 2002, bringing with him a wealth of experience in low input, grazing based dairy systems.
Email:simon.king@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07973 271754
Mike Christie
BVMS DBR MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon/Director
Mike joined the Practice in 2004. Previously, he was the in-house vet at Cogent, where he gained expertise in bull fertility and embryo transfer work. He heads up our ET team and is one of our Clarifide vets.
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Email:mike.christie@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07775 561820
Tom Wright
VetMB MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon/Director
Tom previously worked in Staffordshire, Herefordshire and then at Aldford near Chester. He joined the Practice in 2008 with a wealth of farm veterinary experience. Tom is especially interested in helping us monitor outcomes of the various techniques used at the Practice so we can continue to improve the quality of the work we do.
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Email:tom.wright@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07590 183 804
Dan Stevenson
BVSc MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon/Director
Dan joined us permanently in 2008 and has since joined the Board of Directors. As well as having a particular interest in individual cow medicine and sheep health and production. Dan is pursuing further studies in nutrition and is especially engaged in all aspects of the transition period in dairy cows.
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Email:dan.stevenson@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07894 586233
Hannah Batty
BVMedsci BVM BVS MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon
Hannah joined LLM as the Dairy Intern having qualified from Nottingham University in 2013. Born and bred in Yorkshire, she enjoys socialising with friends in the local Young Farmers Clubs. Hannah came straight to LLM from University and has general enthusiasm for all aspects of dairy vetting (and for most others things too!) but in particular in calf health and heifer rearing.
Email:hannah.batty@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07841 919227
Sarah Gibbs
BVetMed MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon
Sarah graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in London in 2014. She joined the team as the Dairy Intern shortly afterwards. She is a Black Country girl and is very pleased to be working close to home. Enthusiastic about all aspects of dairy vetting, she has travelled to North America to learn more about large herd management and calf health.
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Email:sarah.gibbs@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07711 593783
Rob Hall
VetMB MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon
Rob joined the practice at the beginning of 2017 fresh after graduating from Cambridge vet school. A proud Yorkshire man with a faded accent, he is new to the area and is yet to be persuaded out of retirement to play rugby again. Coming from a dairy and sheep farm, Rob has a broad range of interests within the farming sector. He is especially interested in lameness, calf rearing and housing design–areas he has spent time studying in the US
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Email:rob.hall@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07889 408092
Claire Whittle
BVSc MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon
Claire graduated in 2014 from Liverpool and moved to Dorset where she worked in mainly dairy practice. She loves all things cow and is happy just being around them, either on fertility routines or seeing sick cows. Over the last couple of years she has run successful youngstock discussion groups and loves seeing clients getting engaged in this topic. She also enjoys sheep flock health planning and lambing season.
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Email:claire.whittle@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07841 775695
Tom Jackson
BVSc MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon
Tom grew up in North Shropshire before studying in Bristol, graduating in 2014. The following three years were spent in large animal practice in Market Drayton, gaining a wide range of experience in all aspects of farm work, and particularly in dairy herd health and fertility. Tom enjoys all areas of farm practice but is especially interested in nutrition and surgery.
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Email:tom.jackson@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07837 291097
Raquel Teixeira
Veterinary Surgeon
Raquel joins us as a very experienced dairy vet from Spain. She is from the Galicia region which accounts for 40% of Spain’s total milk production – and also gets lots of rain! It’s no surprise that dairy is Raquel’s specialty having worked with them for 16 years now. Keen to further her knowledge in farm animal vetting she is excited to now be part of the UK dairy industry. In her spare time, Raquel loves a good walk and can’t wait to explore the UK.
Email:raquel.teixeira@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07889599810
Peter Neilson
Veterinary Surgeon & Dairy intern
Pete joins the team in Whitchurch as our next dairy intern, following in the steps of Rob Hall. Pete was brought up in South Devon, near Ottery St Mary which is apparently famous for its tar barrel burning – he might have to explain that to us at some point! After graduating from Nottingham in 2017, Pete worked in a mixed practice in Yorkshire before deciding that he wanted to focus on farm animals. He’s looking forward to getting to know everyone! Additionally if you’re looking to get into weight lifting, Pete is the guy to speak to.
Email:peter.neilson@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07889595908
Laura Hughes
In June 2019 we welcomed Laura to our Whitchurch clinical team. Some of you will have met her out on farm already, but here’s her background!
“I graduated from Liverpool in 2006 and worked for four years in mixed practice in Snowdonia followed by six years as a farm vet for Cain Vets on the Powys/Shropshire border. In 2016 I married a dairy farmer from near Wrexham and took a break from clinical practice by joining APHA as a field vet. In Spring 2019 I accepted a part-time role at the Veterinary Investigation Centre at Shrewsbury where I will be working two days per week, and I decided to go back into clinical practice for the other three days. My clinical interests include surgery and obstetrics and working for APHA has given me an in depth knowledge of TB management.
“Outside work my interests include horse riding, running and swimming as well as being involved with the day to day running of the farm at home.”
Email:laura.hughes@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07736 906632
Katie Arrowsmith
She graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in July 2019, and she comes from a dairy farm in South Lincolnshire. Katie has always been interested in farm work, in particular dairy, since before finishing
her veterinary degree. So, coming from Lincolnshire, she’s headed west to
increase her knowledge and skills in all things farm animal practice. Katie looks forward on getting out onto farm and meeting you all!
In her spare time she enjoy walking and a good day out at the races with friends.Though, don’t count on me for any betting tips!
Email:Katie.Arrowsmith@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:07719 974540
Samantha Partridge
Samantha grew up in Norfolk, where she left school
and worked for a few years. She moved to Bristol in 2010 and began working on a dairy farm in Somerset part-time and started as a mature student at the University of Bristol on the pre-vet year, then progressed onto veterinary science degree in 2011. Samantha had time out of her degree when she had her daughter and graduated in July 2019. She has a
4 year old daughter and a 10 year old step son who lives with them. She enjoy’s running but finds no time to do so, as my hobbies now seem to be what ever the kids want to do or cleaning up behind them! She loves food and a good pint. She’s always had an interest in large animal work, especially cattle and the dairy industry, so she’s keen to get started!
Email:Samantha.Partridge@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:07719 983426
Dimitris Karagiannidis
Dimi joined the vet team in Lancs last year, so belated welcome to the team! My passion for production animals was expressed from my childhood when I used to milk sheep and goats for making ‘’Feta’’ cheese with my grandparents in Greece. After my graduation in 2014, I worked as a full time farm vet on a dairy farm of 250 milking cows. Then, I relocated to the UK to join a farm only animal practice down in Cornwall. Now, I am pleased to be part of the LLM team and enjoy working with family run farms in Lancashire, where a can apply my areas of particular interest such as fertility, nutrition and pathology.
TB Team
Tom Wright
VetMB MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon/Director
Tom previously worked in Staffordshire, Herefordshire and then at Aldford near Chester. He joined the Practice in 2008 with a wealth of farm veterinary experience. Tom is especially interested in helping us monitor outcomes of the various techniques used at the Practice so we can continue to improve the quality of the work we do.
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Email:tom.wright@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07590 183 804
Janina Wawrzynczyk -Zaleska
Janina, who prefers to be known as “Janka”(pronounced “Yanka”) joined us at the start of 2010 to further expand our TB testing team. Tall and red-headed you will certainly know her when you see her!
Alberto Alaman
Alberto previously worked at Eville & Jones before joining LLM in 2016. He enjoys latin and salsa dancing in his spare time.
Anna Blades
Anna is a farmers daughter and was brought up in West Cheshire. With a varied career from customer service administration to Dairy, beef and sheep farming she has recently joined our TB admin team and assisting the front office. In her spare time she enjoys walking her Border Collie through the countryside along with horse riding and spinning.
VetTech Team
Natalie Parker
Nat joined the LLM team in May 2017, her role is not only to work as a vet tech but to develop and expand the vet tech services. Nat has many years of practical experience on a variety of Dairy and mixed farms in the UK and Canada Some may recognise Nat from her time teaching at Reaseheath college and she is certainly enjoying catching up with past students. Nat has a keen interest in cattle lameness and prevention.
Rachel Cooper
Rachel joined the VetTech team in 2016 after moving across from her previous role in the offices at LLM. Having grown up on the family farm just over the Welsh Border and having worked on a large dairy farm whilst she was in college, she has an interest in all aspects of farming and is keen to get stuck in. In her spare time Rachel is actively involved in her local young farmers club and loves socialising with friends.
Email:Rachel.cooper@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07834 547832
Joe Wheeler
Joe’s love of farming began in his early years when he started helping out on a small beef farm in Anglesey. After studying Agriculture with livestock at Cirencester, he realised dairy was his real calling; by the time his graduation ceremony came around he was already in New Zealand working on a dairy farm. Joe went on to work across a variety of farming systems, from block calving and grass-based to 365 calving and fully housed, with a particular interest in improving lameness and nutrition. In his spare time he enjoys shooting, working his Collie and exploring the countryside.
Email:Joe.Wheeler@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07849835379
Jo Brown
Introducing a second Jo to the VetTech team just to confuse the team that little bit more! Having grown up on a beef and sheep farm, Jo has worked on a large calf rearing unit for the past five years after finishing a degree in Agriculture. Her spare time usually involves sheep work – whether she likes it or not (typical farmers daughter!) Jo is looking forward to getting stuck straight in and welcomes all sheep and beef VetTech questions!
Email:jo.brown@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07841501655
Lilli Fox
Approved TB Tester / VetTech
Lilli joins our Derbyshire team as an Approved TB tester but will also head up the VetTech service. Lilli grew up on a beef and sheep farm in Derbyshire and was always cow mad from a young age and has never grown out of it!
She started an apprenticeship on a 1500 head pedigree Holstein dairy farm and soon found a passion for dairy, especially calf rearing and calf health! While on the apprenticeship Lilli was always hands on with the vets and learnt a lot. She loved every second of being there and only left to see the way other herds worked.
Lilli then became self employed and worked on a variety of dairy farms with all different breeds. She’s excited for the challenge of the ATT pilot and is keen to learn new things.
Email:lilli.fox@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07889 580432
Vikki Stockdale
VetTech
I grew up near Ascot in Berkshire, but have been living and working in Cheshire for the past 12 years. I’ve always been pretty hands on with large animals. For nine years I worked closely with horses (coincidence growing up near Ascot?!) Following this I took the plunge and went to work in New Zealand. There, I lived on a Merino sheep / bull farm and calf rearing unit, gaining plenty of farming experience.
I carried on calf rearing and milking full time on cross breed dairy farms before moving back to the UK three years ago to continue milking for a 400+ herd.
Email:vikki.stockdale@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07730 765543
UKET Team
Mike Christie
BVMS DBR MRCVS Veterinary Surgeon/Director
Mike joined the Practice in 2004. Previously, he was the in-house vet at Cogent, where he gained expertise in bull fertility and embryo transfer work. He heads up our ET team and is one of our Clarifide vets.
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Email:mike.christie@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07775 561820
Simon “Stan” Matthews
Stan joined the ET team in December 2009 after working for Genus as an ET Technician for the previous 17 years. He lives near Taunton, on the Devon and Somerset border. His small farm runs 80 ewes and a small suckler herd. Stan’s hobbies include watching Plymouth Argyle FC and the whole family are keen skiers.
Email:Stan.Matthews@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07971 118909
Martin “Spike” Newman
Spike is our ET technician. Joining us from Cogent in 2005, he brought 30 years experience of bovine ET work with a reputation for attention to detail and excellent results. He is fully qualified to scan cattle for pregnancy too.
Email:Martin.Newman@llmvets.co.uk
Mobile:07921 374036
Becky Arden
Becky joined the ET team in March 2010 after working for Genus for 20 years as an embryologist. She works with Emma in the office and also helps the technicians with flushing from time to time. Becky is married to a dairy farmer who runs a pedigree Ayrshire herd and she has two children.
Email:Becky.Arden@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948 663124
Emma Broster
Having spent 28 years working in management for Tesco Distribution in Milton Keynes, and then worked in accounts for Bluefin Insurance for 3 years. Emma decided to move back to her roots in Cheshire. She joined the ET department, in March 2016, where she supports in the office, ensuring all paperwork is completed accurately and in a timely fashion. Emma now lives in Nantwich, with her husband Dave and daughter Elena. She enjoys swimming and DIY.
Email:Emma.Broster@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948 663124
Support Team
Shannon Tidyman
Shannon came to LLM in May 2016 after coming from an equine background, producing and showing both horses and ponies. Her role here is booking in TB Tests and supporting the Front Office Team. She is a propa’ Stokie and loves her oatcakes with brown sauce ‘duck’. She currently spends all of her spare time horseying about and socialising with friends!
Lucy Evans
Lucy grew up on a dairy farm in North Shropshire and is interested in all aspects of farming. Having studied at Harper Adams, Lucy has worked within agriculture for most of her marketing career and joined LLM in October 2017 to help coordinate communications to clients. She’s an active member of her local YFC and loves a good game of netball and tennis.
Email:lucy.evans@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948 663000
Brittany Mcall
Email:brittany.mcall@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948663000
Hazel Goodwin
Hazel joined the Practice in September 2008 having spent five years working at Ruskin Sports College in Crewe. Hazel is in charge of the office team and for keeping all our routine office matters running smoothly.
Email:Hazel.Goodwin@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:03333 445353
Anna Blades
Anna is a farmers daughter and was brought up in West Cheshire. With a varied career from customer service administration to Dairy, beef and sheep farming she has recently joined our TB admin team and assisting the front office. In her spare time she enjoys walking her Border Collie through the countryside along with horse riding and spinning.
Elaine Egerton
Elaine was brought up on a family farm less than half a mile from the practice. She worked in the NHS since the age of 20, latterly as a practice manager of a local GP surgery. She has kept an interest in the local agricultural community, especially being an active past member of Whitchurch YFC. Elaine currently lives in Whitchurch with her two sons and loves travelling and socialising.
Email:Elaine.Egerton@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948 302424
Jenny McGarrigle
Jenny grew up in Cheshire and worked in the insurance industry and in the NHS for five years before joining in the front office team. In her spare time she enjoys music, cooking and walking.
Email:Jenny.McGarrigle@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948 663000
Zoe Prior
Zoe grew up locally in Market Drayton and previously worked in a laboratory. She enjoys walking her dogs and plays Badminton in her spare time. She joined the practice early in 2014.
Email:zoe.prior@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948 302424
Bronte Morgan
Bronte joined LLM Vets in July 2017. Before hand she studied woven textiles at university. She now works with Jan in the accounts department. Bronte likes to spend her spare time with Bertie, her miniature schnauzer, spoiling him with day trips out and lazy days in watching their favourite films. She also enjoys visiting as many museums and galleries as possible.
Email:Bronte.Morgan@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948 663059
Jay Walker
Field Support Manager
My background is further away from the farm world as you can get, but management I have done for some time.
My previous roles include Store Liaison Manager for over 300 Iceland stores in the North, HR & Training Manager for shopping centre/hotels and theAutomobile Association.
I love all animals and when the opportunity came along to work along side the Vets, VetTechs and the TB team I couldn’t get here quick enough and really look forward to working with the team (and cows). My hobbies are interior design, dance and football.
Email:jay.walker@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948 663000
Katie Weaver
Having grown up in Nottinghamshire Katie worked in finance until moving to the Shropshire/Cheshire border 3½ years ago. Since the move she has established a pedigree flock of sheep with her farming husband and most recently has been working as a milk recorder and auction clerk.
Email:katie.weaver@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948 663000
Katy Wilcock
Katy grew up in Shropshire and has been around animals all her life. She spent two years working in a children’s home enduring some very challenging behaviours – great preparation for the vet practice! In her spare time she has horses, dogs and a young son to keep her busy.
Email:Katy.Wilcock@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01785 472211
Sarah Bourne
Sarah grew up on my family run dairy farm in Staffordshire. Sarah and her brother and owned their own flock of sheep (really enjoyed lambing!). Farming has always been her passion. She love’s the outdoors, especially when walking the dogs. She is heavily involved in Cheadle Young Farmers and has been the Secretary there for the past two years. For the past five years she has been working in a school as a teaching assistant but decided she needed a new challenge, so here she is!”
Email:Sarah.Bourne@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948 663000
Eddie Gould
| Eddie started working part time for the practice in September 2011 before retiring from his job at a local bakery. Eddie and his wife Sue, live in Wrenbury and have four grown-up children. Eddie previously worked with livestock feeds and in road transport. His passions are following Nantwich Town FC and during the summer cricket and real ale, both in moderate quantities. |
Michelle Owen
Michelle joined the practice in 2000. She has special responsibility for the support of our expanding computer system and mobile communications network. Her work includes calming colleagues down if there is a problem with their computer!
Email:Michelle.Owen@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948 663017
Reg Tomkinson
| Reg left the army in 1977 and started working for HST Feeds where he worked for 38 years until he retired. He came to LLM in September 2016 and helps out around the practice and with the delivery run. |
Emma Jackson
Emma has a degree in biology and after spending nine years working in the horse racing industry, Emma decided it was time for a career change. Emma lives in Sandbach and in her spare time enjoys travelling, horse riding and walking her dog.
Email:Emma.Jackson@llmvets.co.uk
Phone:01948 663057