Blue Rock Systems Ltd, the supplier of software solutions to builders merchants, has bought the Nottingham based IT software company Sense Computers Systems from the Sense Group for £670,000.

A long-standing customer worked out the combination of a safe at East Anglian independent builders merchant Kent Blaxill's Tool Fayre to win £500.

A team of fundraisers from Wickes, part of Travis Perkins Group, were due to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro this morning, to raise money for Wickes's chosen charity Leukaemia Research.

Dimplex is lifting bathroom luxury to a new level with the launch of the new Lattimo towel rail, a head-turning combination of chrome and glass.

Dunlop Adhesives has launched a new promotion,known as Professor Dunlop's BRAINBOX.

Tarmac will close its Suffolk site the end of this month.

Builders merchant chain Jewson yesterday launched a degree course in builders merchanting in partnership with Birmingham City University and FDF (Foundation Degree Forward).

A Herefordshire-based builders and timber merchant was fined £3,500 with £8,973 after an employee's hand was nailed to a pallet in March last year.

Plumbers merchant PTS part of BSS Group has announced that managing director Alan Ball has left the Group today to pursue other interests.

Design software company ArtiCAD has launched Version 16 of its CAD software, ArtiCAD-Pro, for kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms and home offices and BathCAD - for bathrooms.