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Builders merchants trade association the Builders Merchants Federation has welcomed the early introduction of the second phase of the Government's Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme.

The British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) has warned builders merchants of the availability of dangerous counterfeit safety helmets that have found their way onto the international market.

A builders' merchant was prosecuted after a man fell through the roof of its Blackburn warehouse.

Sussex independent builders merchant Chandlers Building Supplies is already a quarter of the way to its fundraising target for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust charity.

Alderman Fiona Woolf CBE, Honorary Member of the Worshipful Company of Builders' Merchants' has been elected to become the new Lord Mayor of the City of London.

Everbuild Building Products Ltd will feature once again on the shirt of rugby league side Wakefield Wildcats in 2014 after extending its sponsorship.

The Competition Commission wants to see a new , independent cement company competing in the UK market.

More than 100 heating installers and engineers attended a Leicester trade exhibition held by independent plumbers merchant Pochin.

Anglia Tool Centre, part of independent builders merchant group Ridgeons, is holding its biggest ever power tool demonstration trade event, at Norwich City Football Club.

Sales of construction products continued to strengthen during the third quarter of 2013 following the recovery in Q2, according to the Construction Products Association's latest State of Trade survey.