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The Chancellor of the Exchequer is to announce measures in the Budget later today which will help first-time buyers and safeguard building industry jobs.

Today's Budget must include a targeted cut in VAT for all domestic repair, maintenance and improvement if the Government is to get its green economy off the ground.

The Get Britain Building campaign's Plan B, could help the Government to stem the rises in unemployment, according to Modern Masonry Alliance director Mike Leonard.

The Plan for Growth, published alongside today's Budget, has reduced the government's commitment to zero carbon homes.

The Construction Products Association has welcomed the recognition in the Budget today that construction will play a vital role in stimulating economic recovery.

Plumbers' merchant Graham is celebrating its 75th birthday this year by launching the Graham National Karting Challenge for branches and customers in the UK.

Business information expert Equifax has said that construction business failures fell between January and February 2011 compared with a year earlier.

House builders' organisation the Home Builders Federation has set out the measures would like to see brought in to this week's Budget in order to tackle the housing crisis.

The Guild of Architectural Ironmongers is advising the industry that, despite the change of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to the Equality Act on 1 October 2010, there will be no change in the way in which doors and access are designed to allow Access for All.

A customer from plumbers merchant Plumb Center has won a trip to the Barcelona Grand Prix for stripping an Ideal Logic+ boiler in the fastest time.