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NewsGreen light to build 150 polyclincs
Government confirms network of GP-led health centres as it unveils 10-year reform package for NHS
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NewsTories turn on eco-towns as protestors march on parliament
As objectors from across England join forces to protest against eco-towns, Conservatives withdraw support for the new towns
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NewsBBC Television Centre could get grade II listing
English Heritage urges government to list parts of West London site as grade II
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NewsRare neolithic house found in Cemex quarry
Flint tools, arrowheads and 10,000-year and a bronze-age pin is also found at Berkshire quarry
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NewsConstruction firms in Sunday Times' 100 biggest companies list
Laing O’Rourke, Crest Nicholson and Mott MacDonald among UK’s top 100 biggest private companies
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NewsAlsop's The Public finally opens in West Bromwich
Midlands theatre and art gallery complex opens to public after a troubled gestation
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NewsClyde Arc bridge reopens after repairs
Closure dragged on five months after snapped cable led to replacement of all cable connectors
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NewsJCT appoints new chairman
Peter Hibberd, currently JCT general secretary, takes over as Christopher Vickers retires
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Rich ditch their homes as US plays celebrity foreclosures
Bored with the subprime homesick blues, the US press has turned to tracking down the rich who have handed back the keys on their multimillion dollar homes. It's "celebrity foreclosures" folks!That couldn't possibly happen here...
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Poll shows confidence at new lows
More news to spoil your breakfast came in today. The latest consumer confidence barometer reading taken by GfK NOP shows consumers expectations of economic prospects in the coming 12 months at the lowest level since the pollster began asking the question in 1982.What does this mean for construction? Well what ...
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First quarter national accounts figures provide cause for concern
The latest quarterly national accounts provide yet more worrying reading for the construction industry.Firstly, the revisions made by the statisticians have just made the pretty poor figures originally released look worse.GDP growth in the first quarter is now officially 0.3% compared with 0.4% (to put that in context 0.1% ...
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Outsider makes it to last two in race to be HCA’s first chair
Ex-bus company boss Bob Davies vies with English Partnerships’ Robert Napier to head superage
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Credit crunch claims two more housebuilding firms
Capricorn Homes and Dalesmoor Homes go into administration as future darkens for small companies
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NewsPolice arrest 14 illegal workers at Olympic park
First serious security scare to affect 2012 project casts doubt on claims of ‘exemplary site security’
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FeaturesThe scramble for public sector work
The scramble to enter the public sector has begun. The problem is that it has a rather strict door policy, and if your name is Johnny C Lately, you don’t have much of a chance of getting in. But it’s not impossible
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FeaturesRelocating Dorset’s Clavell Tower
It was a race against time to save a tiny piece of heritage on the Dorset coastline by painstakingly moving it away from the cliff edge stone by stone.
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NewsPolice arrest 14 illegal workers at Olympic park
First serious security scare to affect 2012 project casts doubt on claims of ‘exemplary site security’
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Is there a contract in writing?: T & T Fabrications vs Hubbard Architectural Metalwork
The Claimant applied for summary judgment under Part 24 of the Civil Procedure Rules for immediate enforcement of an Adjudicator’s Decision. There was a contract between the Second Claimant and Hubbard, the Defendant. It related to atrium bridges, staircases and metalwork items for a development in London in ...
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NewsBirmingham's New Street station has been an eyesore for too long
The £550m Gateway Plus project should transform Birmingham’s wretched train station
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NewsHouse of mud stars in Glastonbury line-up
The low impact FAB house will demonstrate sustainable building products such as mud render and straw bales