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Builders merchant Keyline Builders Merchants, part of the Travis Perkins group, has raised £250,000 for The Prostate Cancer Charity.

While overall industry markets were broadly positive during 2011, with strong growth in the fourth quarter compared with the same period of 2010, these figures mask weak markets outside London and the south east of England and a favourable weather effect in December.

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins is under fire from local residents in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

Building materials giants Tarmac and Lafarge may not be able to merge as planned now that the Competition Commission has provisionally ruled that the proposed joint venture could limit competition in the construction materials market.

Shower manufacturer Roman have appeared on a new Channel 4 TV series, Home of the Future.

Builders merchant Gibbs & Dandy, part of Jewson, has seen over 60 of its customers receive training in the latest sustainable and renewable technologies, via the group's Greenworks Academy.

Independent plumbing and heating merchant Williams & Co has opened a new training facility next to its trade counter in Portsmouth.

Boiler and renewable heating manufacturer Baxi showed off its manufacturing facilities to Andrew Stunell OBE MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, for Communities and Local Government.

Barretine Products have won the "Supplier of the year Award" at the Dulux Decorator Centres Supplier Conference.

Headline-making modern artist Damien Hirst is planning to build more than 500 eco-homes near Ilfracombe, Devon.