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Whilst welcoming Ed Milliband's acknowledgment that the Green Deal isn't working, Knauf Insulation managing director John Sinfield says that the scheme and its sister scheme, the Energy Companies Obligation "can and should be made to work".

House building on the site of Cambridge builders' merchant Ridgeons will end up as a damaging overdevelopment, fear residents.

UK heating manufacturer, Worcester, Bosch Group, has come out on top in the Which? boiler report for the fourth year running.

Pwllheli-based Carl Kammerling International is sponsoring its employee Clynton Williams and a team of committed cyclists, on a grueling 190-mile charity cycle ride in memory of their late friend, Laura Jones.

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins has acquired a 109,000 sq ft warehouse south of Warrington at Appleton.

A group of colleagues from builders' merchants Travis Perkins took part in the BUPA Great North Run last weekend.

Some UK house developers are using timber frames as a solution to delays and shortages in brick supplies, according to Stewart Milne Timber Systems.

BES Ltd, the mail order plumbing and heating distributor has launched its new catalogue along with an improved collection service.

Irish merchanting group Grafton is transferring its listing to the London Stock Exchange from October 15.

Independent Welsh builders merchant Robert Price has opened its 18th branch, in South Wales and marked the official opening by holding a 'Building Bonanza' exhibition.