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The Pavestone Rally is back. Following the huge success of the Pavestone 2017 Rally, the 2019 Rally will start on 5th September from Reims in Northern France to Stuttgart, Salzburg, Venice and finishing on the 8th September in the beautiful setting of Lake Como. Entrants simply have buy a road-legal …

Norbord’s popular flooring solution, CaberDek, was used during an Army Basing Programme project in Tidworth, Wiltshire. The Army Basing Programme provides housing and improved facilities to Service personnel, helping over 100 Army units to relocate in the UK, following the government’s commitment to bring back all units from Germany by …

Fastener Fair Stuttgart 2019, the world’s leading exhibition for the fastener and fixing industry, will take place from 19 – 21 March 2019 in halls 1, 3 and 5 at the Stuttgart Exhibition Grounds in Germany. Due to a further expansion of the exhibition space this year, offering a total …

A Yorkshire hospice’s hopes of creating a new dementia garden have moved a step closer to reality after a leading UK builders merchant celebrated a major landmark in the county. Selco Builders Warehouse has marked 10 years of having branches in Yorkshire by donating hundreds of pounds of building materials …

Independent roofing merchant Bence Roofing Supplies, established in 2013, has recently moved its headquarters to a larger site on the Kingsditch Industrial Estate in Northwest Cheltenham. Bence Roofing took the former Nissan & Renault dealership and transformed it into a roofing showroom, within four weeks, with the former mechanical workshops …

Littlehampton-based independent plumbing and heating merchants buying group The IPG has been recognised by Arun District Council as 2018’s Business of the Year (10 or more employees). The 21st Arun Business Partnership Awards ceremony took place on the 15th November and saw several local businesses compete across the various categories. …

Expanding independent builders merchant MKM Building Supplies has opened a new branch in Burnley, its 56th nationally. The branch also contains kitchen and bathroom showrooms staffed by dedicated specialists, building materials, timber, roofing and joinery supplies as well as brick-matching and take-off services, as well as a landscaping display, containing …

SELECT, the campaigning body for Scotland’s electrical sector professionals, has joined with other organisations across the country to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Specialist Engineering Contractors’ (SEC) Group. Since its inception in 1993, SEC Group has provided a strong lobbying voice to support the specialist engineering sector especially in …

At the end of July this year, the team of Broke.Bike.Mountain set off on an epic 8,000km journey across Europe with just their bikes! The team then consisted of Louis Blaxill, George Jones and Calum Craig, all aged 23 and who had just finished their studies and wanted to raise …

A massive decline in the number of homes built for social rent over the past decade, revealed in a government report this week, could be addressed in part by increasing focus on quicker-to-build offsite homes. That’s the message from offsite construction flag waver, insulation specialist Actis, which is on a …