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Geoff Cooper, chief executive of builders merchant group Travis Perkins, has said the group is interested in buying some of the assets of rival builders merchant Wolseley.

Independent builders merchant Huws Gray has bought Ainscough Building Supplies in Wigan.

William Ball, the kitchen and bedroom furniture manufacturer has ceased trading.

The Modern Masonry Alliance has hit out at Government plans to bring the planned 2013 review of Part L of the Building Regulations forward a year.

Cement and building materials supplier Cemex UK, building materials supplier, has achieved the prestigious Carbon Trust Standard across all its operations in Great Britain.

The construction industry is likely to decline further in the second half of 2010, according to the the latest Construction Trade Survey from the Construction Products Association.

Keen motorcyclists from Impulse Bathrooms have ridden 1,000 miles in 24 hours in aid of the Royal British Legion.

A new ramblers route at Panshanger Park in Hertfordshire has been opened in memory of a Lafarge employee.

Builders' merchant Travis Perkins is one of those owed money by troubled social housing group Connaught.

Wood panel manufacturer Norbord has committed to the final phase of a £25million investment programme at its site at Cowie, Stirlingshire.