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A host of big name stores have announced some high-profile discounts for this bank holiday weekend.

The weekend, which is is the last public holiday before Christmas, is vitally important for retailers who are still struggling in the recession.

B&Q, the DIY giant, is giving a 15% discount to customers who spend more than £50 in stores between Friday and Monday.

A band of plumbers from company Pimilico Plumbers has won BBC One's TV talent show Tonight's the Night.

The band, known as 'Never Mind the Ballcocks', will now have their CD sold in Plumb Centres and Part Centres across the UK. The band consists of heating engineer Stuart Dunne (lead vocals and guitar), Martin Botley (lead guitar), heating engineer Robbie Glanfield (bass guitar and backup vocals) and Billy Kikidis (drums).

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The son of a master stonemason, Henry John Patch (Harry Patch) the last known surviving British soldier to have been involved on the western front and who passed away on the 25th July aged 111 was apprenticed to a plumber after leaving school at t

A builder from Scotland is in court, being accused of setting a building alight after losing his job.

Dubbed the aquarium for the iPod generation, this is the biOrb Life. Sleek in design and available in three sizes and colours, it looks stunning in any home or office. Reef One would like to give two users the chance to win a biOrb Life 45 litre aquarium complete with tropical heater kit (worth over £250 each).

New research from the National Housing Federation (NHF) has predicted that house prices will not return to their pre-slump levels until around 2014.

Despite many lenders reporting a stabilisation in prices, the NHF predicts that overall house prices will fall by 12.2% this year with next year seeing a further 4.6% drop.

In what looks set to become a bigger news story than the MP's expenses scandal, the Bridlington Free Press exclusively announced yesterday that tools have been stolen from a temporary builders cabin in Read more ...

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