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A 19.4% rise in pre-tax profits at builders and plumbers merchant chain Travis Perkins group Travis Perkins has been put down to improving market conditions and inreasinf customer confidence.

The Pudsey branch of builders’ merchant Gibbs & Dandy picked up an award for its landscaping display at this month’s Great Yorkshire Show.

Flame Heating Spares is helping its installer customers to avoid unnecessary downtime with an equipment lease service.

A driver from builders merchant Travis Perkins helped free a group of men trapped in a van which had overturned.

The construction sector is to grow by 10% and contribute nearly £11 billion to the UK economy over the next two years, according to the Construction Products Association (CPA).

After completing a bike ride of more than 420 miles over four days, Eddie Emblen, national geosynthetics manager at Wrekin Products has raised more than £800 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Independent civil engineering merchant Rudridge has chosen the Northfleet Harbour project as the first recipients of its new community project campaign.

July signalled the steepest rise in residential building activity since November 2003, according to the Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI).

Builders merchant Travis Perkins has closed its branch on the island of Portland in Dorset.

Builders merchant Buttles held its annual trade show in St Albans last month, hosted by stand-up comedian and BT Sport presenter Ian Stone.