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15 November 2000
Indian masons brought to England at a wage of 30p a day to help build a Hindu temple in Wembley should be paid the national minimum wage.Officials of UCATT, the construction union, made the BBC news...
15 November 2000
An audience of more than 200 was attracted to the Flett Theatre at the Natural History Museum, London, for this year\'s 26th annual Donovan Purcell Memorial Lecture.The presentation followed last...
15 November 2000
Theresa Quinn, the chief executive of the National Association of Memorial Masons and its driving force for 11 years, has handed in her resignation. She will leave at Christmas, although she has...
15 November 2000
John Frith of stone fireplace specialists Warmsworth Stone Ltd, Doncaster, died unexpectedly on 23 October. He was 57. The funeral service took place on 31 October at Doncaster crematorium.John...
15 November 2000
Eric Bignell, the editor of Natural Stone Specialist, officially cut the ribbon to mark the expansion of Farmington Natural Stone\'s quarry at Northleach, Gloucestershire. Bignell said: It is good to...
15 November 2000
Michael Goulding, 21, a mason with S...
15 November 2000
Stoneguard, the London-based stone and conservation specialists who already have branches in Manchester, Bradford and Leeds, have opened two new offices. They are in Bath and Stirling.Mike Hinman,...
15 November 2000
Zho, importers of Chinese marble and stone, are opening new offices and a showroom near Thetford, Norfolk, following the signing of a new joint venture agreement with a factory in China.To help them...
15 November 2000
New CDM regulations came into force in October extending designers\' obligations to employees or others under their control.The new regulations, the Construction (Design and Management) (Amendment)...
15 November 2000
The University of Bath is, for the first time, offering managers and professionals with responsibilities for environmental issues a flexible distance learning route to Associate Membership of the...
15 November 2000
A pair of Portland limestone statues of satyrs and maidens, each 3m high, have sold for a record-breaking £245,000 at a Sotheby\'south auction of garden statuary and architectural items in...
15 November 2000
Kirkstone, the Cumbrian stone company with a London showroom that displays their own and imported stones as well as increasingly large range of ceramics and glass, were back at the London interiors...
15 November 2000
Architects RMJM Scotland intended to fuse art and architecture with their Lottery-funded Tron Theatre in Glasgow, which features more than 350 square metres of Burlington\'s Kirkby natural stone from...
15 November 2000
Diamond tool company Nimbus are offering two of their 300mm diameter diamond blades for the price of one.The two blades are the dry cutting Nexus NT16 and Nova Classic NE25, for cutting granite,...