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Keen golfers struggled through the wet weather yesterday in the second round of BMJ's Golf Classic at Little Aston Golf Club, Sutton Coldfield.

A complaint brought by Kubota about an advertisement in which JCB claimed its Mini Excavator was the "UK's best selling mini" has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

Jewson have launched their own-brand range of power tools across all 500 branches across the UK, which they say are equal to or better than the branded alternatives in the same price bracket.

Cyril Brown, the man who oversaw the creation of today's Builders Merchants Federation from the old National Federation of Builders and Plumbers Merchants, died in Germany last month at the age of 87.

Overall the first quarter has been a positive one for Wienerberger, according to their latest financial statement, despite a mixed bag of results geographically as the UK and Germany turn in weaker forecasts.

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Tony Newman, former director of sales for Jewson, has been charged and bailed following accusations of a £1m fraud reported last month by BuildersMerchantsJournal.net.

It wasn't the usual type of birdie that was most memorable at the recent inaugural National Buying Group Golf day. Albatrosses and Eagles weren't the subject of discussion in the clubhouse - a dead duck was.

Jackson Building Centres have been helping to teach local school children in Sutton-in-Ashfield some tricks of the merchant trade in the playground.

Pegler Yorkshire and Grinnell (Tyco Fire & Building Products) have been announced as joint winners of BSS Industrial's 2008 Supplier of the Year Award.