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We talk to Thomas Bailey, 20, who is the web development lead at Wing Mirror Man about his experiences of completing an apprenticeship. 

Why did you choose an apprenticeship versus going to university? 

I wanted to earn. I like to earn whilst I learn. I decided to do the apprenticeship because I was interested in the course associated with the apprenticeship and I knew I would enjoy the course. It was in digital marketing and was a NVQ Level 3. Interestingly, whilst I was at school and Sixth Form college there was very little information about apprenticeships. Both school and Sixth Form college wanted to talk about opportunities to go to university most of the time but I never really felt I wanted to go to university. Even at 16 I wanted to do an apprenticeship and tried to start one. However, that fell through and I ended up doing two years of A Levels which I didn't particularly enjoy but I felt that it was at least a qualification that I ended up achieving

We are excited to relaunch our website at www.wingmirrorman.co.uk after having made major upgrades to it in order to provide our customers with a simpler and more user-friendly buying experience. 

You will see by navigating through the website that there are new ways to pay including trade accounts and zero percent credit. 

Perhaps, more importantly, customers can now view the new website in a mobile-friendly format on any phone or tablet as we know that more and more people use their phones or tablets to search the internet for products and services than ever before. 

One of the main objectives of the upgrades to our website is to make it easier and quicker to find the products our customers are looking for and then enable them to checkout and pay as quickly and conveniently as possible. 

Please send us your thoughts on your experience of using this website (and our other websites in due course) so we can ascertain