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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. 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. EU leader urges Turkey to speed changes data: 10.04.08 The president of the European Commission said Wednesday that he would urge Turkey to speed up reforms and show more interest in European Union membership during his first official visit this week. 2. Heather Mills and Paul McCartney divorce: Questionable 'charity donations' data: 19.03.08 The water thrown at Sir Paul McCartney's lawyer at the end of his acrimonious divorce settlement sounded like a "waterfall", Heather Mills' legal aide has said. 3. Pro-Tibet protesters disrupt Olympic flame lighting data: 27.03.08 Activists angered by the Chinese crackdown in Tibet disrupted the ceremony Monday in Greece, unfurling a banner and calling for a boycott of the Beijing Summer Games. 4. Incumbent wins presidential election in Montenegro data: 07.04.08 An independent monitoring group says incumbent Filip Vujanovic has won the most votes in Montenegro's first presidential election since it split from Serbia two years ago. 5. Papers apologise to Madeleine McCann parents data: 19.03.08 Two tabloid newspapers have published front-page apologies and paid "very substantial" damages over reports about the role of Kate and Gerry McCann in disappearance of their daughter Madeleine. 6. Brown unveils security strategy data: 19.03.08 Gordon Brown is to set out plans to deal with national emergencies such as terror, disease and flooding. 7. Moscow wants its people on site at U.S. missile projects data: 10.04.08 Russia demanded Tuesday that its military officers be present at all times at the planned U.S. missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic to make sure Russia is not a target. 8. Asian stocks drop on fears about U.S. economy data: 10.04.08 Companies like United Parcel Service, considered a bellwether of U.S. economic activity, have cut their earnings forecasts this week, highlighting the threat from a slowing U.S. economy. 9. Green power station opened data: 19.03.08 First Minister Alex Salmond is to officially open a £90m biomass power station in the south of Scotland. 10. Act repeal could make Franz Herzog von Bayern new King of England and Scotland data: 07.04.08 Gordon Brown is considering repealing the 1701 Act of Settlement as a way of healing a historic injustice by ending the prohibition against Catholics taking the throne. 11. Stories of another escape route out of East Germany data: 27.03.08 Thanks to the work of a German researcher, the full extent of the attempts to escape from the Communist Bloc through Bulgaria - and the dangers - is just now coming to light. 12. Contact made with yacht pirates data: 07.04.08 France makes contact with Somali pirates who seized a luxury French yacht with 30 crew in the Gulf of Aden. 13. Greece gripped by pensions strike data: 19.03.08 Greece's civil servants hold a general strike against pension reforms, paralysing transport and closing public offices. 14. France seeks a deeper Western commitment to Afghanistan data: 27.03.08 Even as it considers increasing the number of troops it has stationed in Afghanistan, the French government believes that military might is not enough to bring stability to the country, the defense minister said Tuesday. 15. Sarkozy asks China to talk with Dalai Lama data: 27.03.08 The French president urged China to conduct a "true dialogue" with the spiritual leader of Tibet. 16. BSkyB nets more Champions League data: 19.03.08 British Sky Broadcasting is going into extra time against the BBC and ITV to win the last remnants of European Champions League coverage in the UK after it secured the majority of games in a ÂŁ240m, three-year deal 17. Americans begin to face the pain of an overvalued house data: 27.03.08 Homeowners sometimes lose sight of the fact that their home is only a house to most buyers, especially when prices are falling. 18. 'Post Office Lite' at the village library data: 10.04.08 Royal Mail is to install mini-post office counters in village libraries and church halls across the country after the closure of thousands of traditional post offices 19. Every British Olympian to be drug tested before Beijing data: 27.03.08 Every British athlete competing in the Beijing Olympics will be dope tested at least once before this year's Games as part of the country's most comprehensive pre-Olympic testing programme, UK Sport announced on Wednesday. 20. Italy's trash crisis taints mozzarella's prized reputation data: 27.03.08 For years, little has been done to halt huge-scale illegal dumping of trash, some of it toxic, around Naples. Now there are fears that the buffalo mozzarella produced in that area could be contaminated. 21. British coroner assails Mohammed al-Fayed data: 07.04.08 After six months of sensational testimony, the coroner at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, dismissed the conspiracy theories linking her death in a Paris car crash to a plot by her former father-in-law, the Duke of Edinburgh. 22. City: Severn Trent fined for lying to customers data: 10.04.08 Severn Trent has been fined a record £35.8million for fiddling its figures. 23. Showbiz: ROBBIE WILLIAMS BACK IN REHAB data: 19.03.08 ROBBIE Williams has been admitted into a rehab clinic for dependency on prescription drugs, his spokeswoman announced today. 24. Soaring price of food 'leads to riots' data: 07.04.08 Rising food prices threaten economic stability and could trigger riots, Gordon Brown has been warned. 25. Good Friday! data: 27.03.08 26. Botswana gems to sparkle at home data: 19.03.08 A new diamond-processing plant opens in Botswana creating about 3,000 jobs. 27. Britain suits Maasai marathon warriors to a tea data: 07.04.08 African tribesmen arriving to run in the London Marathon this weekend have instantly become addicted to the British "cuppa". 28. Greece braced for pension strike data: 19.03.08 Greece is expected to grind to a halt as public workers hold a general strike against proposed pension reforms. 29. Owning a cat 'cuts stroke risk by third' data: 19.03.08 Owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than a third, researchers have found. 30. Obama calls for Beijing boycott data: 10.04.08 Barack Obama urges President Bush to consider a boycott of the Beijing Olympics, as the US leg of the torch relay is held. --- --- --- -x- |