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The Builders Merchants’ Federation has welcomed a Government decision that ministers will allow BMF members to adopt postponed accounting for import Value-Added Tax on goods brought into the country after the United Kingdom leaves the EU in exactly seven months’ time. The Department for Exiting the European Union announced this …

More than 150 litres of Sandtex Trade’s X-Treme X-Posure® Smooth Masonry Paint have been used to repaint the striking red and white bands of East Anglia’s iconic Happisburgh Lighthouse, in time for the busy summer holiday season. The landmark opened in 1791 and is today run by The Happisburgh Lighthouse …

Stelrad Radiators has become Premiership rugby’s Newcastle Falcons principal partner. The two-year partnership, with an option for a third year, will see the company’s name and logo on the front of the Falcons’ playing shirts, with Newcastle looking to kick on from their best season in 20 years. Finishing fourth …

Border Merchant Systems, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of dedicated merchant software, is offering extended support to ensure clients are maximising the potential of their investment in their CounterAct software. Training and information sharing includes monthly webinars to highlight not only new items, but also areas of the system …

Kind tradesmen and women from across the country are uniting to help transform the home and garden of a builder suffering from Motor Neurone Disease. Jamie Thompson was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in October 2014, aged 45, and told he had just three years to live. The 49-year-old has already …

Deputy First Minister John Swinney was in Aberdeenshire yesterday to see for himself the progress being made on the £55million Inverurie Community Campus project. He was in the town to attend the ‘Topping Out’ ceremony, meet some of the staff and pupils of the current school and learn more about …

Lafarge Cement Ireland is celebrating 50 years of clinker and cement manufacturing at its Cookstown Plant. Launched in 1968, the plant is now responsible for producing a substantial volume of cement each year, employing almost 100 staff both in Cookstown and at the business’ cement terminal in Belfast. As well …

Giving the heating a well-deserved break Energy sector integration is the key to 24 hours of sun. To help make this vision of an energy supply generated using nothing but renewable sources a reality, the Austrian solar technology specialist Fronius has developed smart solutions for energy sector integration. These solutions …

Adhesive, tape and sealant brand, Gorilla Glue, brings back the Apprentice of the Year competition for 2019. 13 colleges from across the UK will be battling it out to bring home the Gorilla Glue Apprentice of the Year trophy, for their college. Gorilla Glue Assistant Brand Manager, Leoni Brown, said: …

Kier has celebrated the completion of the first phase of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s (UWTSD) pioneering SA1 development by providing tours of the site to industry experts as well as teachers and lecturers. In partnership with the Forum for the Built Environment (FBE), the tours took place …