Soccer hero Jason Lee captures the positive mood at an event kicking off a revolutionary homes and jobs initiative. The former Premier League star, who was the butt of jokes at the height of his career over his hairstyle, seemed to dance with joy as the scheme, which gets people […]
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Furious carpenter Lee Watts has started a petition calling for tougher sentences for thieves who ‘peel’ construction’s vehicles to steal tools. Lee says traders are having their livelihoods ruined by chancers who literally peel bodywork back on the vehicles they target to get at expensive equipment. Almost 11,000 people have […]
Bricklayers can earn £90,000 a year, a study by the UK’s largest trade association has revealed. Brickies earn an average of £42,034, according the Federation of Master Builders, but some in London reap more than £1,730 a week — £90,000 a year. The research says that apprentices in the construction […]
Trainee plumbers, electricians and bricklayers are trading up from the old-fashioned beer-money image of local builders and are becoming among the top earners in the UK. A new study shows that trades people now earn well above the national average once they are qualified. Research by Screwfix says that the […]
When Maximo Portugal attended a celeb ‘party’ to celebrate the launch of a multi-million building project he never expected to walk away feeling like a millionaire… Maximo, who lives in Redmile Walk, Peterborough, with his wife Mary and their son and daughter, had taken a ‘fast-track’ course in plumbing with […]
Celebrity builder Tommy Walsh has unveiled a construction trade revolution at the heart of the UK’s city of brick’s £1 billion regeneration ambitions. The Ground Force star told guests at the opening of the new Screwfix carbon neutral warehouse and store at Brookfield Trade Park, Lincoln Road. Peterborough, PE4 6LA, […]
This run-down mid-20th century office building on a nondescript trading estate in Peterborough was a blot on the landscape until a group of construction students saw the future. Now celebrity builder Tommy Walsh is about to reveal how the group of construction students rebuilt the abandoned office block under a scheme […]
A shock new report reveals that one in five graduates are working in low or medium paying jobs job and most of them regret going to university in the first place. However, the report says that people who took apprenticeships in the trades can expect to be earning £50,000 a […]
A GROUP of construction students have rebuilt an abandoned pottery warehouse under a revolutionary training scheme backed by celebrity builder Tommy Walsh. Engineering Real Results, the largest trades training organisation in the UK, has been buying up neglected and derelict properties in a multi-million pound move giving tradespeople of all […]
A converted warehouse in the back streets of Stoke on Trent is becoming quite the celebrity place to live. The old fire-ravaged lavatory warehouse which was bought for less than £60,000 recently has been turned into three floors of luxury one and two bedroom flats, some with elegant mezzanine floors […]