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Since the results of the UK referendum to leave the EU were announced, some of the more hard-line Leavers have been trumpeting about a new world (or at least European) order.

There’s a theory that one can mark one’s increasing age by the speed at which certain important events come round again – Christmas, birthdays, school holidays and, er, General Elections.

Last September, Tarmac's Cement business opened its new state of the art cement packing facility at Tunstead near Buxton (home of the iconic Opera House, the Devonshire Hospital, and other architectural gems), building on its capability to produce cement packed in plastic sacks or plastic tubs at the works. This was also combined with improved…

Q: When is a secret not a secret?

My news feeds this morning make me suspect that either the ‘silly season’ for rubbish no-news news-stories has started early, or the Government is hoping to bury some bad news.

So here we are then. About to Brexit. Nine months or so since the UK populace took to the polls and the Leavers squeezed past the Remainers, the House of Lords have passed the Government’s Brexit Bill.

What can we expect from Phillip Hammond’s first Budget today? He’s already talked about the wodge that is coming the way of the education sector (the words ocean and drop spring to mind) and we’ve heard about the new T-level qualifications to try and stop people thinking of technical or vocational qualifications as somehow ‘less…

Sometimes if you bang on about something enough times, people start to listen to you. Listening and acting upon that information are two very different things however as this industry has discovered over the years.

What a surprise. The most expensive place in the country to buy a property is the also the place where the Government’s Help to Buy has helped the fewest people.