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Kitchen appliances Beko has returned to UK TV screens with a consumer campaign designed to boost brand awareness and promote sales.

The Prime Minister has announced a further £150m for stalled building sites under his Get Britain Building investment fund. However for it to be truly effective it needs to be coupled with reforms to the planning system.

The EU Construction Products Regulation and its implications for the supply chain was the focus of a Suppliers' Liaison meeting held last week by the Builders Merchants' Federation.

Construction lobby group, the Modern Masonry Alliance, is calling on the Government to forward finance right-to-buy receipts to start work immediately on building 25,000 homes for affordable rent.

Builders merchant Travis Perkinsheld a raffle at its branch in Oakham to raise money for a local charity.

Independent builders merchant Lawsons Timber, Building and Fencing Supplies celebrated its 90th year of trading last year, marked by a year of fundraising for the charity Macmillan Cancer Support.

The Orpington branch of Benchmarx, the Travis Perkins-owned kitchen and joinery specialist has a new door and flooring centre after an entrepreneurial member of staff spotted an opportunity.

Sussex-based independent builders and timber merchant Covers opened a new branch in Horsham yesterday (March 12).

F & P Wholesale, the distributor of heating, plumbing and bathroom products to independent builders' merchants, is to continue support of the national wheelchair charity Whizz-Kidz until the end of 2013.

Leicester builders and plumbers merchant Robert Pochin Ltd has upgraded its software system as part of a series of infrastructure projects for the business.