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The Considerate Constructors Scheme (CSS), charged with discovering London's most considerate builder, has unvealed Andy Lock as it's winner for 2009.

Building regulations in the UK are set to be changed in October this year to improve the energy efficiency of new build and refurbished homes.

The following changes to building regulations will be made to Parts L, F and J to make homes 25% more efficient:

Builders from Southampton were shocked to discover an unexploded German World War II bomb at a building site that they were working on.

A train station in Carlisle has been given an exciting new DIY makeover in preparation for the filming of a new television advert.  The station's bridge has received a stripy-coloured makeover, while one of the platforms has been transformed with turquoise paint, purple wallpaper and lampshades hanging from the ceiling.

A new deposit protection insurance has been introduced by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) to help to protect homeowners.

A builder from Northumberland has received 90 letters from the Inland Revenue saying he owed £100 - and 90 more saying he didn't.

Trevor Bell, of Bedlington, Northumberland said: "They would not fit in the postman's bag." The Revenue is said to be investigating the mix up.

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A builder from Yorkshire has been jailed for four years after conning homeowners out of tens of thousands of pounds.

Darryl Glynn from Selby managed to get customers to hand over £54,990 for work that was left undone, leading to rain-damaged houses that had to be vacated and bills of at least £34,000 to fix.

A new survey has revealed that the average Brit spends more than two weeks of their lives waiting for tradesmen. The time is equivalent to 366 hours or 15 days.

If ever you needed a reason to find a reliable tradesperson, here it is...

A row has began this week after a demand that all builders from Islington who are working on council houses need to be checked by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB).

Builders are the most likely workers to win big prizes in the lottery, according to analysis by the National Lottery.

Shocking new figures have revealed that there are 210,000 out-of-work builders in the UK applying for just 300 building jobs.

A building company from Bristol blockaded a luxury hotel in Warminster after a row about £40,000 worth of unpaid bills.

Asda is backing the Stop the Unfair Building Tax campaign aimed at blocking the Treasury's plans to stamp out the building industry practice of treating labourers as self-employed.

The first cheque was used by the Romans in first century AD, and has been a common form of payment ever since. Now the Payments Council is looking to phase out the use of the payment method by 2018 and The Federation of Master Builders has launched a campaign to secure the future of the cheque.

Brian Berry, Director of External Affairs at the FMB said:

Three builders from Cheltenham who folied an attempted robbery have been described as heroes by petrol station staff.

Andy Powell, Jason Paterson and Carl Steed had stopped at their local Texaco garage to pick up some snacks when a man carrying a knife started to threaten staff.

A group of builders from Leeds have returned to work after digging up an unexploded shell on a building site.

The device, thought to be a World War II bomb, was uncovered on Goodman Street in Hunslet on Wednesday. A 100m perimeter was set up and nearby offices had to be evacuated.

It wasn't necessary for the bomb to be set off in a controlled explosion.

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A local house builder from Cambridgeshire is doing its bit to save one of Britain's most beloved endangered species of bird, the swift.

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

A builder from Watford has admitted conning four elderly homeowners out of thousands of pounds. Thomas O'Brien admitted overcharging the pensioners by a total of almost £20,000 at St Albans Crown Court.

Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson is being sued by five building companies after failing to settle unpaid bills.

The 42-year old actress allegedly owes more than £690,000 for work carried out on her new home in Malibu, California.

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

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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Here at ProblemSolved we value the power of review. So we've compiled a list of the Top Ten Most Reviewed Builders on ProblemSolved, this time in London E1.

Click on the following link to see the full list of all the builders in London E1 on ProblemSolved.

Top Ten Most Reviewed Builders E1 (19/06/09):

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Builders have been overtaken by hairdressers as the trade that takes the most tea breaks, according to a recent report by Nutri-grain.

Angry construction workers have staged a city centre protest over a pension row which has left them "in limbo".

Around 235 building staff in Glasgow were due to start repair and maintenance work in the city under new employer Connaught.

Betram Edwards Builders Merchant has gone into administration after just under 90 years of business. The depot was closed on December 18 2008, with 21 members of staff losing their jobs. The firm, which officially goes into administration on 15 January 2008, cited the current economic climate as the main reason for the recent downturn in sales.

Lee Provost a builder from Looe in Cornwall narrowly escaped death when a cliff collapsed in his van during a renovation project. Provost had been sitting in the VW Caddy just minutes before the the 60ft landslide wrote off the 30 year old's van.

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

Industry coalition calls for a cut in VAT A broad coalition of organisations including the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Empty Homes Agency, the Bathroom Manufacturers Association and the National Home Improvement Council (NHIC), has been formed calling on the Government to cut VAT from 17.5 per cent to five per cent for all building repair and maintenance work.

The ‘Cut the VAT’ Coalition is calling for a reduction in  VAT to help the Government achieve its target of cutting carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050;

Although Problem Solved will help you avoid cowboy builders, there’s probably no way of knowing if your builders will pull a stunt like this.