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Builders merchants invoice clearing house United Merchants plc increased turnover by 14% for the year to April 30 2011, its board meeting has revealed.

Welsh builders merchant LBS has been trialling a new electronic check system for vehicles.

The number of administrations in the construction sector fell 16% from 101 to 85 in the second quarter of the year, according to finance and business advisors Grant Thornton UK LLP.

Paul Walton, business systems project manager at plasterboard manufacturer Knauf Drywall, has tackled a trans-Atlantic charity yacht race in aid of Demelza Hospice Care.

Brick manufacturer Ibstock Brick has more nominations on the shortlist of the 2011 Brick Awards than any other

Plumbers merchant chain Wolseley has renegotiated revolving credit facilities, a move that finance director John Martin calls "innovative" refinancing.

Immigration officers arrested four men at a builders and timber merchants in Southall last week.

Independent builders merchant buying group NBG LLP has announced more details about its Partner/Supplier conference in November.

Fifteen organisations in the UK construction industry are campaigning against current government policy on bio-mass subsidies.

The Timber Trades Federation says that the timber market has grown for the first time in three years in the UK.