The first really good weather of the summer brought the inevitable unveiling of white limbs and bad taste T-shirts; accompanied by the sound of people scraping the rust and food remains off their barbeques as they prepared to burn another batch of burgers.

Time was when ‘tag’ was a harmless playground game which guaranteed kids got plenty of exercise, with the only possible downside being the odd grazed knee. Since the eighties of course when the graffiti culture crossed the Atlantic, tag has been the term used for the symbol each perpetrator uses to identify...

Last week’s election not only brought a ‘hung’ Parliament, but the even stranger situation for the UK of people being denied the chance to cast their votes because polling stations could not cope with the numbers. And one of the reasons given by officials for this regrettable situation was that only one person can sit and tick...

News that six more local authorities across England have joined the Building Schools for the Future programme and will share nearly £420 million of Government investment presents a real opportunity for sustainability principals to be applied by the application of smart ‘’Don’t skip -it fix it‘’ processes...

With all the news coverage – and chaos – linked to the volcanic dust from Iceland, we thought it was an ideal time, at Plastic Surgeon, to consider the subject in relation to our business and processes….. for it is inevitable that the very nature of our work stirs up a little dust itself.

As more local authorities join the BSF programme, Plastic Surgeon, provider of cosmetic building repairs, has stressed the opportunity for projects to be more sustainable by repairing, not replacing.