The construction industry is generally improving, according to the Office of National Statistics.

The new Bauhaus Ultra Slim hidden-in-the-wall WC support frame and cistern is ideal for the smallest of places.

Builders merchants trade association the Builders Merchants Federation has welcomed the early introduction of the second phase of the Government's Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme.

Independent East Anglian builders merchant Collier & Catchpole has appointed Jasper Smathers as branch manager of its Ipswich yard.

Independent worktop manufacturers Bushboard is re-launching its Nuance range of bathroom surfacing which offers waterproof panels, worksurfaces and upstands in laminate and solid surfacing.

The British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) has warned builders merchants of the availability of dangerous counterfeit safety helmets that have found their way onto the international market.

A builders' merchant was prosecuted after a man fell through the roof of its Blackburn warehouse.

Sussex independent builders merchant Chandlers Building Supplies is already a quarter of the way to its fundraising target for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust charity.

Alderman Fiona Woolf CBE, Honorary Member of the Worshipful Company of Builders' Merchants' has been elected to become the new Lord Mayor of the City of London.

Carl Kammerling has got into the festive spirit by introducing its biggest ever Christmas promotion.