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Luton Borough Council has told builders merchants organisation the Builders Merchants Federation that it is planning Health & Safety inspections of builders merchants and other distributors in the Luton area.

North Wales-based independent builders merchant Huws Gray has bought the entire stock of Caradale Traditional Brick Ltd from the administrators.

Boiler manufacturer Baxi has been named Green Manufacturer of the Year at the InstallerLive Awards.

Hand tool manufacturer Irwin Tools provided a variety of tools and accessories to the competitors taking part in the WorldSkills London 2011 competition.

Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK turned its Panshanger Park quarry into an outdoor classroom for the day as ecology students from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew learned how quarry restoration can be a friend to nature.

Campaigns by builders merchant Build Center and plumbers merchant BSS are among those shortlisted for this year's Construction Marketing Awards.

A builders merchant from Buildbase in Leicester has completed a 95mile sponsored cycle ride in aid of the charity Macmillan.

Plumbing fittings supplier Geberit helped a TV charity appeal by supplying pipe fittings and tools to help renovate a rundown youth centre in a deprived area of Liverpool.

The government must support the Green Deal by levying a rate of 5% on work connected with it, according to Bill Bolsover, chairman of the Construction Products Association.

The Carbon Trust has confirmed today that paving and walling supplier Bekstone has further reduced its carbon emissions by an astounding 19.2%.