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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.

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.

Sustainable Building Solutions, part of the Travis Perkins Group, played host to twenty-five delegates from the Brazilian construction industry organisation SEBRAE.

Independent builders merchant Ridgeons has buried a time capsule at its Ridgeons Pocket Park, a public park created by the merchant in Cambridge city centre.

Some 50,000 tree seedlings have now been planted in the Buildbase Lifecycle Forest in Sweden by timber company SCA Timber.