By Mary Blenkinsop
Our local Secondary school decided that it wanted an outdoor swimming pool.
It got Government money for the WHOLE project, even though some of the pupils' parents (g...

By Colin Nutley
There seems to be an overiding need to cut costs throughout the building and housing markets at the moment, and typically government led schemes fall by the wayside when we...

By Steve @bisTrack
I think we've all got used to compact tubes now and don't need as much of a financial shove. Makes more sense to subsidise large capital outlays like cavity walls. I'm p...

By Pops
And only months ago our glorious leaders were saying that if we didn't all use compact mercury-laded lamps the world would end. Next thing, we'll be told that by recycling shopping...

By John Sinfield
.....your true colours are showing!! Lest we forget, Labour presided over the longest period of sustained growth in living memory - fuelled on unsustainable consumer debt...

By Howard Morris
Here we go again - as predicted 'Home UK' will be allowed to fall into desrepair with capital spending reductions - falsely implying good management by the tory led coalit...

By Jasper
The planning system also needs to be flexible enough to allow small-scale 'selfbuild' developments, which often get turned down by the authorities (who will give permission to un...

By Steve @bisTrack
Every industry thinks it's a special case, but surely there really are grounds for thinking that the construction industry can be one of the tails that wags the economy'...

By allandurning
it was only a matter of time before BG decided to cut the middleman IE the specialist installer out of the supply chain,after their recent acquisition of a well known contr...

By David
TP has created a reputation for high prices. Local Merchants can always beat stock permitting. However, the difference is that Joe Blogs tends not to shop at TP but B&Q, and so...

By Mr L Conway
I have used tradepoint about six times and every time they have not got the items in stock,so I have had to pick them off the shelves,whats the point,it takes longer and do ...

By Dave Trent
What a shame to see a good man and a good government forced out on a matter of perceived personality and style. The lot of the ordinary person in this country has been greatl...

By Howard Morris
We now face the usual farce of conservative led cuts in infrastructure and fabric of 'general' society in order to pave the way for 'gold lining' the affluent classes. Typ...

By Andrew
This country is in a hole. If the cuts are to be called draconian cuts, then draconian cuts it is! It's a typical Labour government that spends everything, nearly goes bankrupt a...

By Gordon Pirret
Brown is so egotistical that I doubt he has any awareness of real life at all frankly! they leave the country in a shambles every time they are in power (will people ever ...

By gareth Wright
This is your fault this is

By Jeff
I work for Build Center, and quite frankly they could not organize a piss-up in a brewery, they have dangled bonus schemes [red to green was one such one] over the years and when w...

By ExWickes
I read their statement too - it is either very hard to understand or 'economical' on what it's saying.

From what I can make of it, the bottom line is that (on merchant...

By Steve Faulks
After the afterglow of first love between the Posho Twins, I predict that Nick Clegg will end up top boy of the two. You heard it first here.....

By Jamespl
Building a new house - self build - B&Q refused to provide a cash account - does not recognise self build - how does that work? - their loss!! - I'll stick with recognised merch...