Coronavirus UK: Builders’ anger over ‘key worker’ status

Builders across the UK have said they feel ‘angry and unprotected’ as they continued working on busy construction sites on the first day of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown. The government has come under pressure to urgently clarify who it counts as a ‘key worker’ after Britons woke up in a state of confusion over who … Read more

Why are builders still allowed to go to work?

The government has come under pressure to urgently clarify who it counts as a ‘key worker’ after Britons woke up in a state of lockdown confusion. Last night in his historic address to the nation, Boris Johnson ordered the workforce to stay at home unless travelling to work was ‘absolutely necessary’.  But the wriggle room … Read more

Builders get revenge on flytippers and return rubbish with digger

Builders take revenge on flytippers by using a digger to return the rubbish that was dumped on their construction site – after spotting an address on a letter in the discarded waste Construction workers videoed themselves returning waste to a home in Dorset  They had found a large pile of rubbish on their recently cleared building … Read more