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National builders merchant chain Travis Perkins has teamed up with Kirklees College to support its construction courses.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced an extra £225m in funding to unlock a series of stalled major local housing projects in a speech to the National House-Building Council.

Hallam Contracts in Leicester has gone into administration with the loss of 105 jobs.

Builders' organisation the Federation of Master Builders wants to see the Government do more to encourage the development of small and micro sites that exist in every town and city if it wants to tackle the housing problem.

Independent builders merchant group The Bradfords Group has bought two former WT Burden branches.

Dimplex has raised thousands of pounds for charity by sponsoring the Legends Charity Golf Day.

Building materials manufacturers Lafarge and Tarmac are to sell some of their UK cement and aggregate assets to Mittal Investments, as part of conditions set by the Competition Commission to allow the two firms to merge their building materials activities.

Derbyshire builders and plumbers merchant Markovitz has announced the appointment of Paul Beaman as Business Development Manager.

The Government's flagship Green Deal energy efficiency programme was described on Saturday as being "in tatters" as it emerged that not one household has been assessed under the scheme yet.

Independent builders merchant Huws Gray invited a number of construction students from the Dolgellau campus of Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor to its Llangefni truss rafter plant to enable them to gain a greater understanding of truss rafters and easy-joist manufacturing.