Posted by James Mace at 14:57 on 11 May 2010 Posted by Ivy Lamb at 12:36 on 21 Apr 2010 Singer Charlotte Church had to call in a plumber on a emergency visit to retrieve her new diamond engagement ring, which had fallen down a plughole.
BBC TV’s Over The Rainbow judge panicked after the heart-shaped ring fell off as she washed her hands. The ring disappeared in a bathroom basin at the Welsh farmhouse she shares with rugby star fiancé Gavin Henson.
Plumber Andy Ward was about to set off on holiday when he got the frantic call to Charlotte’s 20-acre home at St Brides Major, near Bridgend.
Posted by James Mace at 12:17 on 20 Apr 2010 Madonna, the undisputed Queen of Pop, has called plumbers into her London home to fill her central heating system with Kabbalah water.
Posted by Ivy Lamb at 15:45 on 14 Apr 2010 A group of Fulham plumbers have a plan to help people in Uganda suffering from lack of water. They aren’t going to do it from afar, though. Come July, the plumbers plan to travel all the way to Africa so they can use their skills to build a water tank that will help hundreds of drought and poverty stricken Ugandans.
Posted by Ivy Lamb at 15:06 on 08 Apr 2010 In 1990, West Yorkshire-based plumber Hattie Hasan established the appropriately named Stopcocks Women Plumbers after struggling to find full-time employment the male-dominated plumbing industry.
Stopcocks was one the first companies of women plumbers, and now Stopcocks Women Plumbers has a new scheme for helping women plumbers find and keep work.
Posted by James Mace at 15:43 on 12 Feb 2010 Posted by James Mace at 11:57 on 25 Jan 2010 Two plumbers from New York were arrested after policeman mistook a bag a candy for crack cocaine.
Posted by James Mace at 14:39 on 22 Jan 2010 Posted by James Mace at 15:45 on 14 Jan 2010 A survey by tool supplier Bahco has found that 54% of plumbers blame their tools for injuries caused while working. What's that famous saying again...?!
Posted by Sarah Sole at 12:52 on 06 Oct 2009 The Conservatives, on the first day of their annual conference, said a pioneering technical school would be sited in either Bradford or Leeds and be one of many planned for the biggest urban areas across England, creating plumbers, buil
Posted by James Mace at 17:31 on 24 Aug 2009 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).
Posted by James Mace at 13:58 on 07 Jul 2009 Posted by James Mace at 12:22 on 25 Jun 2009 Big Brother winner and TV’s favourite builder Craig Phillips will teach ladies in London how to maintain and decorate their own houses in less than a weekend in July. Craig will be at Richmond College on 11-12th July and 18th-19th July.
Posted by James Mace at 15:01 on 23 Jun 2009 Here at ProblemSolved we value the power of review.
Posted by James Mace at 11:43 on 22 Jun 2009 Here at ProblemSolved we value the power of review. So we've compiled a list of the Top Ten Most Reviewed Plumbers on ProblemSolved, this time in London W1.
Posted by Jonathan Peace at 09:42 on 27 Mar 2009 Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has set out his stall to the G20 with a plan to soothe the global economic crisis and save the jobs of Australian plumbers. The 26th Australian premier will join Gordon Brown and Barack Obama in appealing for the elimination of bad bank assets to resuscitate the lending market.
Posted by Jonathan Peace at 10:31 on 09 Jan 2009 After the weekend's cold snap, the last few days of more temperate weather have spelt a massive headache for plumbers as the big thaw caused record levels of burst pipes across the UK. Severn Trent water has reported a 50 per cent increase in calls and Home Emergency group Home Serve has reported double the number of claims in the first week of 2009 as compared to last year.
Posted by James Mace at 09:36 on 23 May 2008 I’m sure if most of us were asked to name a famous plumber, a certain computer game character would spring to mind. The clever people at Train4Trade Skills have taken this association one step further by creating a virtual reality house where trainee plumbers can fix problems that occur in the real world.
Posted by James Mace at 14:40 on 07 Apr 2008 Builders, gasfitters and other tradesmen have an “alarming” ignorance of the risks posed by asbestos, with 20 dying each week, a report revealed today. The British Lung Foundation said a survey of 400 workers showed that only one in eight knew that exposure to asbestos could be fatal. One in 10 of those questioned revealed they had been pressured to continue working even if they suspected that asbestos was present, while one in four mistake
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