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Citywatch: With bells on
“Poor old Heywood Williams,” was the verdict of many in the City after the building products supplier was forced into a pre-pack administration sale on Tuesday after a restructuring deal was scuppered by its largest shareholder Paul Bell
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Merger market twitches – but remains in coma
The corporate financiers, bankers and lawyers who put together merger and acquisition deals have had plenty of time to ponder their next move after returning from their summer holidays
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HCA set to slash funding to Basildon by £17m
Cuts include £13.5m from housing schemes, as Essex town is hit hardest by Thames Gateway review
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Homes subsidy hits £65,000
The amount of government money spent per new affordable home reached its highest ever last year
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Mortgage clampdown could rule out 10% of borrowers
Housing analysts have warned that as many as 10% of borrowers will be denied mortgages as a result of new rules on lending set by the Financial Services Authority
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NewsLongbridge reborn
This £100m town centre at Longbridge, Birmingham is the first phase of the 15-year, £1bn regeneration of the former MG Rover car production plant
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NewsShortlist for £1.8bn prisons PFI framework revealed
Carillion, Balfour Beatty and Laing O'Rourke among firms competing for contracts to design, build and run up to five 1,500-place prisons
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News'Fork it, let's skip the safety'
That was presumably the 'reasoning' behind putting the skip backwards on the forks of this truck to help a bricklayer fit air vents
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NewsVideo: Cabe's Peter Maxwell on designing schools in a downturn
Cabe's head of enabling public buildings explains how he believes design quality will survive a recession at BSEC North
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NewsVinci and Robert McAlpine scoop £5.5m Manchester hospital job
Joint venture will fit out part of Royal Oldham Hospital to create haemotology ward, day case unit and surgical ward
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NewsEnergy minister pledges date for national policy statement
David Kidney says he is looking for 'earliest day in November' to publish full document
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NewsInfrastructure Planning Commission confirms first projects
Government planning body to consider five wind farms, a biomass plant, two National Grid programmes and two nuclear plants
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NewsMiddle East still alive with opportunity, say engineers
Delegates at ACE conference hear that 'Dubai is not dead' and the UAE economy is set to return to growth next year
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NewsBlacklisted worker wins fight against terror injunction
Judge describes Scottish & Southern Energy's case against sacked electrician as 'fanciful bordering on paranoid'
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NewsParsons Brinckerhoff shareholders approve Balfour deal
Final hurdle completed for £380m acquisition of US consultant by Balfour Beatty, as vote secures 99% support
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NewsVideo: 'PfS won't ignore regional firms again'
Partnerships for Schools academy director Colin Howell promises opportunities for smaller firms in the £4bn academies framework
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NewsVideo: How spending cuts will affect school building
Ed Burton, Capita Symonds’ head of education, talks to Building about how a reduction in capital expenditure will affect the sector
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NewsRadar-invisible turbine could blow away wind farm objectors
QinetiQ/Vestas 'stealth' turbine is hoped to remove a major planning barrier to wind power developments
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