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Builders merchants Travis Perkins might have to launch a £350m rights issue to see it through the rest of the downturn, according to analysts at Royal Bank of Scotland.

Global building materials group Lafarge, owners of the Blue Circle cement brand, have reached their first has CO2 emissions reduction objective two years in advance.

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins have begun a £2m redevelopment of one of their two sites in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

Independent builders merchant chain MKM Building Supplies have opened a new branch at Lynn in Norfolk.

Around 12 parked cars and vans were crushed on Wednesday morning when scaffolding on the roof of the Minster Insulation branch in Exeter collapsed.

Heating and plumbing merchants HPS increased sales for 2008 by 10% to £30.88, although operating profits fell from £2.08m to £1.6m.

The Get Britain Building campaign, the coalition of builders merchants, builders and manufacturers, is being launched at the Welsh Assembly today.

The latest group of graduates from the Grafton/SCA Timber Supply Timber Champions course have been to Sweden to see their training at first hand.

Wolseley chief executive Chip Hornsby has shown his faith in the builders and plumbers merchant group with the purchase of £50,000 of Wolseley shares.

Global demand for cement will fall this year for the first time in 25 years, according to Lafarge's chief executive.