The heating industry’s first ever Safety Superhero Day saw experienced installer and industry advocate Paul Hull of @PRHullLtd, team up with Worcester, Bosch Group in a social media takeover aimed encouraging the nation’s heating engineers to champion gas safety.

Two stalwarts of the South West, Exeter Chiefs and Bradfords Building Supplies, have joined forces for the 2017-18 rugby season.

The Government may well have decided that it wants to push through its planning proposals from the Housing White Paper as Sajid Javid the planning minister told the National Housing Federation conference last week. However, that doesn’t mean that the message has yet got through to local authorities – many of them Tory-run.

Builders and plumbers merchant John Nicholls (Trading) Ltd has opened its latest Plumbing & Heating branch at Top Angel, Buckingham Industrial Estate, Buckingham.

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid is bringing forward government plans to boost delivery of new homes.

Drew Styles, from Wigan, has been crowned the UK Plumber of the Year 2017, in the nationwide competition run by JT, Bristan and Wolseley Plumb Center.

The Welsh Government’s announcement that £30m will be pumped into the Wales Property Development Fund to improve access to finance for small Welsh construction firms will help to increase house building, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) Cymru.

Two employees from the Farnham branch of Rudridge have completed the challenge of a lifetime and raised £3,200 by cycling from Paris to Geneva in memory of a much-missed former colleague.

History has been made with the first jumbo train of 34 wagons and 660 metres long departing from Associated British Ports rail terminal in Cardiff and travelling to Acton in London.

As the colder months draw closer and heating systems are turned back on, it’s the time of the year where heating engineers are more frequently called out for essential servicing.