Calls this week for schoolchildren to begin receiving careers advice from the age of seven met with predictably mixed reactions from parents, teachers, and the wider public; comments varying from cautiously welcoming the initiative, to saying it’s too young or how can it be shoe-horned into an already over-crowded curriculum?

A huge mural covering one entire wall of a swimming pool building at a hotel on the English Riviera has been the subject of a sensitive repair contract carried out by Plastic Surgeon, a specialist in cosmetic repair for clients across the construction sector.

The MMC agenda may be moving sections of the building industry away from some of the more inefficient practices of the past, but new legislation now means that controlling waste is not only desirable on environmental grounds, but actually becomes a financial necessity. And therefore repairing damaged products...