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    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>New corporate manslaughter legislation dangers</title>
      <description>Leading insurance broker, Jardine Lloyd Thompson launch new dedicated Construction Risks division aimed at the regional contractor market.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) </category>
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      <title>SMEs in construction industry and the fuel crisis</title>
      <description>Research from Bibby Financial Services has revealed that more than half of SMEs in construction industry are already passing on increased costs incurred by the fuel crisis.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Bibby Financial Services</category>
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      <title>Are building firms walking the Tribunal Tightrope?</title>
      <description>Giles Dixon, MD of ContractStore.com comments: "It appears UK businesses are not taking the necessary steps with regards to undertaking appropriate due diligence when taking on new employees".</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>ContractStore.com</category>
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      <title>Plan London to work on Southwark right-to-buy</title>
      <description>Plan London has been chosen to produce Land Registry compliant lease plans for all Southwark Council's residential properties which are sold through their Social home-buying or Right-to-Buy schemes. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Plan-London</category>
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      <title>ATaC selects Howden</title>
      <description>The Asbestos Testing And Consultancy association (ATaC) has selected Howden as its recommended provider of liability insurance cover to its membership.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Howden Insurance Brokers</category>
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      <title>Improved efficiencies in their supply chain</title>
      <description>Bristan Group realise improved efficiencies in their supply chain by easily extending On Demand Electronic Trading to their customer base through Wesupply.com.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>WeSupply.com</category>
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      <title>Euler Hermes UK Construction Industry Report</title>
      <description>Despite increased demand in public and private sectors, rising material and pre-construction costs are putting pressure on UK Construction industry, according to new report from Euler Hermes UK.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Euler Hermes UK</category>
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      <title>Business failures continue to soar</title>
      <description>Equifax Business Failures Report for first quarter 2008 reveals rise of 11% in Construction sector.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Equifax</category>
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      <title>Safeguard your property interests</title>
      <description>ContractStore.com has launched a new range commercial documents to safegaurd your property interests.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>ContractStore.com</category>
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      <title>Cyril Sweett Group acquisition of Nisbet</title>
      <description>International construction and property consultancy, Cyril Sweett, acquire Nisbet LLP  for GBP5.9m.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Cyril Sweett</category>
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      <title>Preferred bidder on Scottish PPP education scheme</title>
      <description>Cyril Sweett announce that the Education for Inverclyde consortium has been confirmed as Preferred Bidder on the 30 year, GBP80m PFI Schools project for Inverclyde Council.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Cyril Sweett</category>
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      <title>Free five star environmental audit</title>
      <description>Howden to provide a free Five Star Environmental Audit by the British Safety Council to architects and surveyors who arrange Professional Indemnity insurance with the broker.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Howden Insurance Brokers</category>
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      <title>Cash flow problems for fifth of construction firms</title>
      <description>Bibby Financial Services research shows that more than one fifth of companies believe that managing cash flow, late payment and bad debt will be the biggest challenges they face in 2008.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Bibby Financial Services</category>
      <link>http://www.buildingtalk.com/news/bib/bib146.html</link>
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      <title>Wesupply.com named 'Company of the Year'</title>
      <description> Wesupply.com recognised for its leading on demand supply chain management solutions by Building and Facilities News, beating over 1000 companies to the sought after Award.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Wesupply</category>
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      <title>Wesupply.com efficiencies help reduce costs</title>
      <description>Growing number of customers in the building sector are joining the Wesupply intelligent network to connect trading partners and deliver valuable business innovation.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Wesupply</category>
      <link>http://www.buildingtalk.com/news/weu/weu112.html</link>
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      <title>Dangers of losing gross status under new CIS</title>
      <description>Wellers Accountants highlight responsibilities under new CIS scheme and offer advice on how to avoid the punishment that is trapping so many unsuspecting subbies.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Wellers Accountants</category>
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      <title>Heath Lambert 'State of the Market Report 2008'</title>
      <description>Current boom in major construction projects in the UK and internationally, coincides with a competitive period within the insurance industry.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Heath Lambert Group</category>
      <link>http://www.buildingtalk.com/news/het/het103.html</link>
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      <title>Small business insurance - are you covered?</title>
      <description>Neale Phillips, head of Insurance-for-Business at British Gas Business explains the importance of ensuring that you have the right insurance in place.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Insurance-for-business </category>
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      <title>Unimer unveils details of Unimer Day 2008</title>
      <description>Unimer plc has confirmed the dates for its' annual flagship event - the Unimer Day 2008 and unveiled the new, further improved format.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>United Merchants </category>
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      <title>Redrow new employee benefits programme</title>
      <description>Redrow, residential and commercial property developers, has enlisted pandmm, the UK's leading performance improvement company, to implement a new employee benefits programme for its staff.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>P&amp;MM</category>
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      <title>Business failures up as credit crunch hits</title>
      <description>Equifax Business Failures Report reveals widespread increases across most sectors in Quarter 4 2007.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Equifax</category>
      <link>http://www.buildingtalk.com/news/eqi/eqi126.html</link>
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      <title>British Gas Business launch insurance website</title>
      <description>British Gas Business has launched a dedicated business insurance comparison site to enable small businesses to purchase their insurance online.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Insurance-for-business </category>
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      <title>Protect yourself with proper business contracts</title>
      <description>Giles Dixon of ContractStore.com explains the importance of protecting yourself in 2008 with legally binding contracts.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>ContractStore.com</category>
      <link>http://www.buildingtalk.com/news/csd/csd100.html</link>
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      <title>No more TIPS from HMRC</title>
      <description>HMRC has suddenly removed the TIP (Tactical and Information Package) for the construction industry from their website, says Wellers Accountants.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Wellers Accountants</category>
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      <title>Cyril Sweett Group plc- Interim results</title>
      <description>Cyril Sweett Group plc report its first interim results as a publicly listed Group on AIM.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Cyril Sweett</category>
      <link>http://www.buildingtalk.com/news/cyr/cyr112.html</link>
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      <title>Property developers apathetic about legal issues</title>
      <description>New research commissioned by law firm Thomas Eggar LLP reveals a significant level of apathy amongst property developers around the legal aspects of a development.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Thomas Eggar</category>
      <link>http://www.buildingtalk.com/news/thd/thd105.html</link>
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