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On August 16 1977 I woke up to the news that Elvis Presley had died.

I was talking to a chap who sells cement the other day, as you do. And what he said worried me.

So many initiatives sound great on paper but fall down in the execution. Partly because no-one has thought out right from the start, exactly how the schemes will work in actual, real-life practice.

The sale of 22 branches of Burdens to Wolseley raises almost as many questions as it answers.

According to the latest figures from DECC, the Green Deal is gathering momentum.

Ironically enough, as I was driving away from the NMBS Supplier conference the other week, I drove past a lorry from the Happy Hen Company which proclaimed: "Happy hens lay better eggs" - that its eggs were better than others because they are happier.

So the dust has settled on George Osborne's penultimate pre-election Budget. How do you feel now then chaps? Richer? More secure? Happier?

Things are what you might call looking up.

Well, here we are again, at the start of another new year. Happy New Year!

So, another year and another Conference goes by.