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Around 12 parked cars and vans were crushed on Wednesday morning when scaffolding on the roof of the Minster Insulation branch in Exeter collapsed.

Heating and plumbing merchants HPS increased sales for 2008 by 10% to £30.88, although operating profits fell from £2.08m to £1.6m.

The Get Britain Building campaign, the coalition of builders merchants, builders and manufacturers, is being launched at the Welsh Assembly today.

The latest group of graduates from the Grafton/SCA Timber Supply Timber Champions course have been to Sweden to see their training at first hand.

Wolseley chief executive Chip Hornsby has shown his faith in the builders and plumbers merchant group with the purchase of £50,000 of Wolseley shares.

Global demand for cement will fall this year for the first time in 25 years, according to Lafarge's chief executive.

Builders merchants across the UK are throwing themselves behind the Get Britain Building Campaign, encouraging their suppliers and customers to back the campaign and promoting it wherever they can.

An MP who is also a builders merchant is calling upon the government to cut VAT on housing maintenance and refurbishment to 5%.

Irish building materials giants CRH are believed to be considering becoming the partners of builders merchant group Wolseley in a joint venture for the latter's American arm, Stock Building Supplies.

Pre-tax profits at insulation and roofing materials group SIG fell by 73.4% to £33.1m on sales which were 24% ahead at £3bn.