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Sex on Jumeirah Beach pair found guilty
Dubai duo sentenced to three months in jail, but intend to appeal
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Beckett pledges to support housing sector
First speech as housing minister acknowledges scale of problem and seeks ideas from the industry
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New funding to tackle skills shortages
Government pledges £93m for training in selected sectors, including housing and FM
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Landlord fined after boiler poisons tenants
Poor boiler maintenance led to near-fatal carbon monoxide poisoning
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Balfour Beatty to start on £200m road scheme
Design development work complete on widening of A421 from Bedford to the M1
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Buro Happold to oversee India's World Cup cricket stadium
Consultant will project manage construction of Hopkins-designed Pune International Cricket Centre
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Steel framework goes up at Olympic stadium
Cranes hoist into place 35 tonnes of steel terracing for south stand this week
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Observations on Beckett's first speech as housing minister: 2
There was one intriguing bit in Margaret Beckett's speech to the Housing Market Intelligence conference yesterday that baffled me at the time and I am glad to say baffled others.She said: "On land supply, there may be ways that we can reduce the risk to new developments, by bringing forward ...
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Observations on Beckett's first speech as housing minister: 1
I spent yesterday at the Housing Market Intelligence conference in London. Naturally I found it excellent. Of course I would say that as I'm involved in it.Bias taken into account, here is just one of a many of observations from the conference.Margaret Beckett gave her first speech as the newly ...
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Bright spots in the gloom says Experian's latest construction forecast
I've just received an email from James Hastings, head of construction futures at Experian Business Strategies with the latest forecast update attached.And, not a surprise, it was gloomier than the summer forecast, which then saw the industry overall stumbling rather than plunging into recession this year and next. It is ...
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Contingency funds of £95m released for Olympic village
Credit crunch means 50% of finance needed has yet to be secured
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How to... attract and retain staff
Employers need to challenge their staff and provide them with the right incentives to stay
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HOK reveals designs for Bahrain Water Garden City
Coastal scheme developed by Albilad Real Estate will have housing for 40,000 people
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Video: On site at Dubai World Trade Centre with WSP
Building speaks to WSP associate director Bart Leclercq about progress on the redevelopment of the World Trade Centre area in Dubai
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Councils to meet ministers over Icelandic banks crisis
Local authorities seek government aid and demand inquiry into faulty investment advice
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Top services tips that have saved one firm's clients £220,000
Consultancy shows how to fit a building's use to design for energy savings
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Jobless total soars to 1.79m
Government makes £100m available to retrain workers who lose their jobs
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Commercial property slumps in Japan
IPD index shows returns to end June are just 8.4%, with capital growth at only 3.3%