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The 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. Afghans 'seize Taleban leader' data: 07.04.08
Afghan officials say they have arrested a senior Taleban commander in the southern city of Kandahar.

2. Ken Livingstone plays the race card data: 19.03.08
All those of us who have for years struggled to bring the shy, retiring figure of Boris Johnson before a wider public can at last feel our efforts are starting to bear fruit.

3. Car bomb explodes in Spain after warning call from ETA data: 27.03.08
Spanish police say a car bomb has exploded in the northern Rioja region after a warning call from the Basque separatist group ETA.

4. Latest Pictures: The 90th anniversary of the RAF data: 07.04.08
Pictures from 90 years of the RAF.

5. United and Barca poised to claim semi-final places data: 10.04.08
Manchester United and Barcelona are favourites to see off AS Roma and Schalke 04 on Wednesday and set up a mouth-watering Champions League semi-final.

6. Putin invites Bush to confer in move to avoid public clash data: 07.04.08
The meeting is likely to be the last between the two leaders before the Russian president is replaced by his protĂŠgĂŠ, Dmitri Medvedev.

7. Delia Smith's recipes 'have too much salt' data: 07.04.08
A number of Delia Smith's recipes in her How to Cheat at Cooking series contain more salt than the recommended daily intake, food campaigners warn today.

8. Finland's foreign minister ousted over scandal involving exotic dancer data: 07.04.08
Finland's foreign minister was ousted Tuesday by his conservative party over a text message scandal involving an erotic dancer.

9. HBO appoints entertainment president data: 10.04.08
HBO, the Time Warner-owned premium cable network, named Sue Naegle as president of entertainment, entrusting her to shepherd a new generation of programmes to replace defining hits like the multi-award-winning The Sopranos and Sex and the

10. Anti-French fury in the Comoros Islands data: 07.04.08
Jonny Hogg visits the Comoros Islands where warmth turns to fury as people accuse the French of helping their rebel leader escape.

11. 'Some progress' in Russia-US ties data: 07.04.08
George Bush and Vladimir Putin sign a basic agreement on bilateral ties, without a breakthrough on differences.

12. Setanta talks on possible sale end data: 07.04.08
Setanta Sports, the Ireland-based pay-TV channel, has ended exploratory sale talks after potential bidders demurred from its high price tag

13. In a slump... data: 10.04.08
... is it time to start feeling sorry for estate agents?

14. 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.

15. Captain Birdseye actor John Hewer dies data: 19.03.08
The actor who starred as Captain Birdseye in the adverts for fish fingers for more than thirty years has died

16. Latest Pictures: Anthony Minghella CBE - 1954-2008 data: 19.03.08
Anthony Minghella CBE - 1954-2008

17. Music cache from Hitler's headquarters features Jewish and Russian musicians data: 27.03.08
Outward hatred for Jews and Russians may have belied a secret passion for some of their greatest musical works, if a recently discovered cache of records proves to be the remains of Adolf Hitler's private music collection.

18. 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.

19. Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney: data: 19.03.08
Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney met at an awards ceremony in May 1999, where he admitted he was immediately attracted to her.

20. First six-way kidney transplant performed data: 10.04.08
Doctors have carried out the world's first simultaneous six-way kidney transplant.

21. Tennis: Murray battles to win data: 19.03.08
Andy Murray battles past Croatian Ivo Karlovic in the third round of the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells.

22. Google and Yahoo to share web ads data: 10.04.08
Yahoo and Google announce a two week experiment that will see them share advertising space.

23. Researchers discover pre-Edison recording in France data: 07.04.08
They say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison's invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.

24. Mirror Money: 100% mortgage? Don't let it get on top of you data: 10.04.08
Hundreds of thousands of home owners with "supersize" loans face mortgage misery.

25. Birmingham City bosses Karren Brady and David Sullivan arrested in football probe data: 10.04.08
Karren Brady, the Birmingham City managing director, and David Sullivan, the club’s co-owner, have been arrested as part of the investigation into alleged corruption in football.

26. Junior doctors 'bullied' into unpaid overtime data: 07.04.08
More than half of junior doctors are being "bullied" to work hours of unpaid overtime, the British Medical Association has warned.

27. Beckham seeks more glory data: 27.03.08
David Beckham, already the world's most famous footballer, is expected to reach another career highlight on Wednesday by becoming only the fifth player to win 100 caps for England.

28. 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.

29. Polly Hudson: When celeb kids rebel.. data: 19.03.08
It Has come to my attention that Cruz Beckham is the best person who has ever lived.

30. Two charged over beach head data: 07.04.08
Two men are charged in connection with the death of a Lithuanian woman whose head was found on a beach.



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