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City Plumbing, part of Highbourne Group, has supported the BBC’s DIY SOS programme with product donations worth more than £10,000 for recent big builds in Leicester, London, Southampton and its Children in Need special in Cheshire, The Joshua Tree. The DIY SOS Children in Need special focused on The Joshua …

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear Oh dear. What on earth has been going wrong at the BBC? There has clearly been, for some years, a lack of management oversight, and of management cojones to deal …

James Hardie, the high-performance fibre cement and fibre gypsum building solutions provider, has joined forces with the BBC DIY SOS team to help transform a family home in Leicester for a programme due to be aired in Autumn 2025. The house in Leicester is home to a young woman named …

The Builders Merchant Federation (BMF) has announced Justin Webb will share his insights on the political landscapes of the UK and America at the BMF Annual Conference, which takes place in September. As a former BBC North America editor, and the first British journalist to be granted a full television …

Band of Builders has helped construct the award winning “Constructing Minds” garden, it won two awards and incorporates materials found at construction sites. The garden went on show at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park, in July, where it was awarded the Best Show Garden and an RHS Silver Gilt …

But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly If only life came with an edit-button. Once you’ve invented something, it’s quite hard to un-invent it again, now matter how tempting it must be. Such …

In its continuing bid to reduce the stigma associated with mental health and to highlight the need to create healthier and well workplaces, UK charity Mates in Mind and BBC News featured Mates in Mind as a part of a short series raising awareness of mental health in the construction …

Fire tests from as early as 2014, showed cladding used on Grenfell Tower failed to meet the safety standards, a BBC investigation has found. The cladding used on Grenfell was Reynobond PE, aluminium panels containing a plastic filling, that were popular in cost-conscious council refurbishment schemes. While zinc cladding was …