Fiona Russell-Horne

Group Managing Editor across the BMJ portfolio.

Tile Giant heads to TV

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Tile retailer, Tile Giant, is aiming to drum up sales in the run up to the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend with a Summer sale TV advertising campaign, running across the Sky TV network until Monday 31st May. Focusing in on the summer sale, the tile retailer has devised a series of …

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Jewson Civils Frazer tools up with new hire offer

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Jewson Civils Frazer has launched a new specialist Tool Hire service to meet increased demand from customers. The new direct to site offer, which is available via all the company’s branches, gives a fast four-hour delivery service on all in-stock equipment, so customers can get the right tools for their …

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Selco helps out at Birmingham’s Wilson Stuart School

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 Children at a special school in Birmingham are getting excited to explore the outdoors following a donation from builders merchant chain Selco Builders Warehouse. Wilson Stuart School in Perry Common, Erdington, is constructing wheelchair friendly routes in a school project that takes the classroom outside. The school caters for 229 pupils …

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Promotional month to push heat pump take-up

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The heat pump industry is uniting behind Heat Pump Month, designed to support the scale-up of heat pump installations. With heat for homes accounting for 14% of the UK’s carbon emissions, a wholesale switch to energy efficient heat pumps – 600,000 heat pumps a year according to Government figures – …

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Because Covid:

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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. “In these unprecedented times”; “Due to the coronavirus situation”; “Because of the staff shortages caused by the pandemic”; “our service levels may slip below what you might expect”; “it may take longer for us to answer your query”: What do …

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RDT’s Clover takes on 84 miles in 48 hours

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Bryan Clover, CEO of industry charity the Rainy Day Trust, is taking on an Ultra Challenge to raise money for the charity. On 17th and 18th September he will hike from Bristol to London non-stop in 48 hours. That’s 84 miles carrying a massive amount of water and everything else …

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BMF Young Merchants to get a taste of adventure

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Oli France, an adventurer and professional expedition leader, will share some of his experienes at this year’s BMF Young Merchants Conference in October. France has travelled alone and led teams through some of the world’s most dangerous and least visited countries on adventures that have taken him through deserts, jungles, …

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Polypipe pushes forward with RFDA cycling sponsorship

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Polypipe is supporting a Yorkshire all-female cycling team in its quest to kick-start a cycling revolution.   The Racescene Female Development Academy is unique in amateur cycling for supporting only female riders,  and, as it enters its third year of competitive cycling, is hoping to put behind it the pandemic …

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Siroflex sticks to multi-surfaces

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OB1 from Siroflex Limited is a multi-surface construction sealant and adhesive product   described as a High Spec Hybrid Construction Sealant & Adhesive. The product has a tried and tested formulation, which has been used by the decorating industry for the past fifteen years. OB1 bonds and seals a range of …

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Polypipe welcomes storm overflow provision in New Environmental Bill

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New legal duties on water companies and government will be included in the Environment Bill to reduce sewage discharged into waterways, a move that has been welcomed by Polypipe Civils & Green Urbanisation. The additions to the Environment Bill, which were announced on May 11, include duties on the government …

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