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Builders LondonThe Builders London is the principal trade organisation for private sector housebuilders and voice of the home building industry in England and Wales. It is an exciting industry filled with many talented people and organisations, providing sustainable and attractive homes to meet the demands of consumers. Consumption of energy has a direct influence on environmental quality, because of the inherent pollution through greenhouse gasses and other emissions. Then there is the loss of natural beauty, ecosystems and basic resources associated with the extraction of fossil fuels and building materials. The combined effect of this is staggering. Our member firms account for approximately 80% of all new homes built in England and Wales in any one year, and include companies of all sizes, ranging from multi-national household names through regionally based businesses and small local companies. 1. World food prices soar as Asia consumes more data: 07.04.08 Price rises are leading to protests and some governments are responding with controls on prices and exports. 2. Anthony Minghella, Oscar winner, dies at 54 data: 19.03.08 Anthony Minghella, the British film director who won an Oscar for The English Patient, has died aged 54. 3. 'I'm on the plane... the PLANE' data: 07.04.08 When passengers can yap into their mobiles in the air, plane travel will be even worse, says Clive James. 4. Fiona: Tragedy of Todd data: 19.03.08 Police chief Mike Todd was the best cop Greater Manchester had known, according to tributes on the force's website. Only he didn't believe it. 5. Japan fails to choose bank chief data: 19.03.08 The Japanese government's latest nominee to be governor of the Bank of Japan is vetoed by the opposition. 6. Greek prime minister faces a vote of confidence data: 27.03.08 It is unlikely that the censure motion against Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, introduced by the opposition, will succeed. 7. Afghans 'seize Taleban commander' data: 07.04.08 Afghan officials say they have arrested a senior Taleban commander in the southern city of Kandahar. 8. Worrying lack of economic growth in Italy becomes a campaign issue data: 10.04.08 Specific demands from northern industrialists and business leaders - for lower taxes, increased incentives to spur growth, a streamlined bureaucracy - have intensified as the election approaches and as new data has confirmed Italy's designation as the sick man of Europe. 9. Risk-taking architect takes field's top prize data: 07.04.08 Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris and the muscular Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, has received the Pritzker Prize. 10. Boring press conference, telling moment data: 27.03.08 11. Motorola divides into two separate companies data: 27.03.08 Motorola's chief executive said he hoped that by spinning off the unprofitable mobile phone unit, the company would have better luck attracting a new chief executive to revive it. 12. Tears and tantrums data: 19.03.08 Spencer Livermore, the long-time aide to Gordon Brown who is leaving Number 10 to go to Saatchi & Saatchi and Fallon, has not been ousted by Stephen Carter, the... 13. Fiona: Don't Carey data: 07.04.08 Mariah Carey. The very name conjures nasty feelings. Like the time I interviewed her and she barely looked me in the eye. 14. Popular appeal... why did British PM show up on American Idol? data: 10.04.08 Gordon Brown appears on the US talent show American Idol to promise to buy 20 million mosquito nets for malaria-hit countries. 15. Games website helps companies compete for business data: 07.04.08 CompeteFor is an online portal on which contract opportunities from the London Olympics will be published. It should be busy. More than 50,000 contracts will be... 16. Stem cell pioneer backs research data: 10.04.08 The scientist who first isolated stem cells more than 25 years ago has hit back at critics of embryo research. 17. Richard Hammond: MOT makes me feel like an OAP data: 07.04.08 It's been a great week for older people. But it's also been a week when I've discovered that I'm shortly to be one of them. And I'm not ready. 18. George Bush empty-handed as last summit with Vladimir Putin ends in failure data: 07.04.08 President George W Bush's last ever summit with Vladimir Putin ended in failure last night when the Russian president stood firm in his opposition to Washington's controversial missile defence shield. 19. Sarkozy appeals to FARC for hostages' freedom data: 07.04.08 The French government said Wednesday that it was trying to help a woman who has been held hostage by Colombian rebels for more than six years, as her son warned that she needed an immediate blood transfusion to stay alive. 20. Delia recipes 'loaded with salt' data: 07.04.08 Campaigners attack recipes in Delia Smith's latest book for being too high in salt. 21. Notes from a hot and humid Friday in Sepang data: 27.03.08 22. DLA claimants being 'cut back' data: 10.04.08 Many genuine disability living allowance claimants are not getting what they are entitled to, a councillor has said. 23. Sarkozy defends France's nuclear arsenal data: 27.03.08 President Nicolas Sarkozy said the country would continue to reduce the number of warheads on airplanes but defended its arsenal as vital to deter new threats. 24. Asian businesses and workers suffer from dollar's weakness data: 27.03.08 The sliding value of the U.S. dollar against most global currencies is putting many businesses and workers under increasing financial pressure. 25. Europe struggles to accommodate its growing Muslim minority data: 27.03.08 Across Europe, politicians try to be culturally sensitive to Muslim citizens without sacrificing liberal principles. 26. Female British spy's exploits during World War II are revealed data: 07.04.08 A British spy who helped lead the French Resistance during World War II outfoxed the Nazis by concealing secret messages in the hem of her skirt, according to records unsealed Monday. 27. Dalai Lama to resign if Tibet violence continues data: 19.03.08 The Dalai Lama today threatened to resign if the violence in Tibet spirals "out of control" as the Chinese prime minister accused him of orchestrating the protests in his homeland. 28. Yahoo board huddles over Microsoft bid data: 07.04.08 Directors were in discussions about Microsoft's latest gambit in its unsolicited takeover approach, amid signs that Yahoo was preparing to dig in deeper against its suitor's current bid 29. City: Virgin to jettison massages data: 10.04.08 Virgin Atlantic's firstclass passengers will be a little less pampered in future - if plans to axe the airline's 280 onboard beauty therapists go-ahead. 30. Credit crisis forces a German lender to close data: 10.04.08 Weserbank's chief executive blamed market turmoil for the demise of the bank, the first European banking fatality of the global financial crunch. |