Warning over cowboy builders cold-calling vulnerable households as lockdown ends By Miles Dilworth For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 7 July 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 7 July 2020 Homeowners are being warned of a rise in cowboy builders targeting vulnerable households as the UK exits lockdown. Experts say they expect a ‘significant escalation’ … Read more
More than £1.7billion was added to the value of Britain’s biggest housebuilders on hopes the Chancellor will cut stamp duty. Rishi Sunak is expected to propose raising the levy’s threshold so that it would only apply to properties valued at £500,000 or more, instead of the current £125,000. The changes are expected to be unveiled … Read more
Builders want £180m-a-year levy lifted as bill to fund industry training looms By Neil Craven for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:30 BST, 20 June 2020 | Updated: 22:30 BST, 20 June 2020 Construction firms are calling for a holiday from a £180million-a-year levy that they are due to begin paying as soon as next … Read more
Woman is left in tears after finding secret notes that her then three-year-old daughter hid in the walls of her house 30 years ago Kimberley Colbeck, 36, was stunned when her notes from 1987 were discovered Age three, she hid notes with her brothers Andrew, 12 and Christopher, eight Builders renovating her old house in … Read more
A Hasidic rabbi has been revealed as the victim of a brutal stabbing in broad daylight on a London street today – before two heroic builders tackled the knifeman to the ground. MailOnline exclusively obtained a photo of Yaakov Schlesinger, the senior rabbi and teacher from the Satmar sect in his 50s, who was stabbed … Read more
Brought bark to life! Two drowned puppies are saved with CPR by builders after they were found in a pool of water on a Thai construction site Heartwarming footage shows two drowned stray puppies brought back to life Builders in Trang, southern Thailand, spotted the puppies Wednesday June 3 After considering burying the ‘dead’ puppies they … Read more
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent a thank you message to builders working on a tourism project at a seaside resort, according to a state newspaper apparently eager to quash reports he may be dead. Rumours have swirled about Kim’s health, after he underwent heart surgery earlier in the month and the vice director of … Read more
Guernsey is already on its way out of lockdown as gardeners, mechanics, estate agents and builders can return to work from Saturday – while in Britain huge queues formed up outside B&Q stores and Five Guys burger restaurants yesterday, despite the ongoing lockdown. Some businesses on the Channel Island – which is a self-governing British … Read more
Huge queues built up outside a Five Guys burger restaurant last night as parts of Britain showed signs that they were getting back to work today despite the ongoing coronavirus lockdown. Builders are returning to construction sites and roads are visibly busier than a week ago, with traffic having increased to the highest levels since … Read more