A Great Yarmouth business group has celebrated 10 years in the town of offering services to the offshore energy industry.

Carl Ross started Sub-Tech Precision on October 1 2013 and a year later branched out with STP Fabrication.

Under the umbrella of the STP Group he now employs up to 25 full-term staff members at Enterprise Court.

Mr Ross said: "I took a risk and started a business that was funded with assistance from my family and from the bank that had approved the business plan.

"After a profitable first year in trading, it was realised that we were missing out on a lot of fabrication and welding work that was required by many companies in the town.

"It was at this point that I started a second company, STP Fabrication Ltd.

"I asked Matthew Spall, a long-time friend, to join me and run things on the fabrication side, he accepted my offer and we began trading in 2014."

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Mr Ross added that within weeks of STP Fabrication starting to trade the oil crash took hold and the following couple of years were a real struggle.

After three years based in two small units behind Tesco Extra in Great Yarmouth, Mr Ross moved to larger premises at Enterprise Court, just off Gapton Hall Road.

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He said: "Here we have a large yard space and a separate office building that now enables us to compete with bigger manufacturing businesses in the local area and supply some of the largest companies in the UK and Europe.

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"We now find ourselves in a financially stable and strong position to move forward and continue to make a real name for ourselves in the borough."

The STP Group also offers multi-discipline support to the nuclear industry on both new build and decommissioning projects.

To help celebrate 10 years of the business, the mayor of Great Yarmouth Penny Carpenter visited it.