Alison Seabeck MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Minister, responding to figures from the House Builder’s Federation indicating a further fall in new planning permissions being granted for homes in England in the second quarter, said:

Ban Ki-Moon is to seek a second term as Secretary General of the United Nations. He formally announced his candidacy yesterday, noting that he had approached the job during his first term as a "bridge-builder" at a time of unprecedented global change. "That is our challenge as we look ahead," he said.

The BBC suffered a series of embarrassments after two senior presenters inadvertently swore on air and a third was hoaxed by a builder he mistook for an MP.

Another BBC blunder as Yorkshire builder is interviewed on Radio 4 in belief he is Scottish MP angry about tuition fees rise.

ENERGY giant Scottish Power has turned to government ministers for permission to continue routing giant electricity cables through a patch of private ground, blocking the land

One striking feature of the Labour leadership contest so far is how a new more honest line on immigration is emerging. At the Fabian Society conference this morning, Ed Miliband declared that ‘immigration is a class issue’. Pointing out that, “If you want to employ a builder it’s good to have people you can take on at lower cost, but if you are a builder it feels like a thr...

Alistair Darling was confronted over his Budget today by an angry builder who complained that the tax burden laid on pensioners was unfair.

It is a while since I have been on a building site,  but Wednesday afternoon found me booted and suited again in builder chic in order to visit our new Head Office, now a large concrete shell being fitted out. There was a purpose to the visit to do with Electrickery but we also got

Maurice the Builder shows us how.

I really will have to visit the Boys & Boden Ltd branch at Shrewsbury, just to confirm that this story is true. But according to a half page advertising feature in this weekend's Montgomeryshire County Times, its a fact. The builder's supplies company has installed a giant urinal in the toilet section of the salesroom, where men are challenged to urinate out to as great a distanc...