The boss of Pimlico Plumbers has warned that the UK’s so-called gig economy faces a ‘tsunami of claims’ after losing a landmark employment battle in the Supreme Court. Charlie Mullins was trying to overturn rulings which said that a plumber who worked for his company for six years could claim […]
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Almost 25,000 people have signed a petition demanding the Government gives the police the tools they need to halt a crime ‘craze’ which trades people say is putting their livelihoods under threat. Thieves are using a trick to peel thousands of locked van doors ‘like bananas’.The gangs are using simple […]
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 […]
Despite the uncertainty about Brexit and the pound buffetting around the Euro and the fears over Carillion’s collapse, the spark appears to be back in Britain. Electricians can earn £3,000 according to new figures which also reveal plumbers pulling in £2,000 a week and brickies bringing home £1,125. Recruitment firm […]
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 […]