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Company enters into creditors’ voluntary liquidation. As we reported exclusively on Friday last week, Manchester-based Windmill Group has appointed insolvency practitioners as the first step towards a creditors’ voluntary liquidation. According to a letter from the appointed insolvency practitioner – Dow Schofield Watts – it has been instructed to assist in the convening of a…Read moreRead more

It’s an ill wind as North West contractor slides into liquidation. Windmill Group, the Manchester-based demolition company, has become the latest in a long line of UK demolition contractors to succumb to difficult trading conditions. The company has, apparently, called in the receivers.  Sources suggest that the receivers were left to break the news to…Read moreRead more

My Dad Does Demolition back on the shelves in time for Christmas run-in. After a brief absence, the best-selling My Dad Does Demolition children’s book is back in stock and available to buy. Following two large orders, we were forced to reprint the book (again). “The demand has been truly staggering,” reports co-author John Woodward….Read moreRead more

Prices down by a quarter as China’s steel consumption decline impacts. Ferrous scrap recyclers hoping for a price rebound in the fourth quarter of 2015 are instead seeing another steep price drop in the early October buying period. An Oct. 7, 2015, report in American Metal Market (AMM) says steel mill buyers in the Chicago…Read moreRead more

Group sues over demolition of Marilyn Monroe’s one-time home The city of Los Angeles trampled state and local laws when it approved demolition of a home where Marilyn Monroe briefly lived to make way for a condominium project, a lawsuit charges. A residents’ group is seeking to roll back the City Council’s approval for the…Read moreRead more

…we salute you! Alberts music studios in Neutral Bay, known to have launched the careers of Australian chart legends AC/DC, The Easybeats, The Angels and Rose Tattoo, is to be reduced to rubble to make way for a luxury apartment block. The Rangers Rd headquarters – the company’s home since 1984 – is being sold…Read moreRead more

With new chimney in place, work to take down remaining three set to commence. Work to dismantle the remaining three of Battersea Power Station’s iconic chimneys will kick off in the coming weeks after the first of the chimneys to be rebuilt successfully reached half of its full height. The huge concrete towers were badly…Read moreRead more

Broke city spending half a million dollars on wooden stakes…? We can only hope that Detroit never suffers a vampire outbreak as the cost of killing the blood-suckers would pretty much bankrupt the already struggling city. A local TV news report has discovered that demolition contractors tackling blight in the city are paying almost eight…Read moreRead more

Islam cannot be utilized as defense with regard to terrorism Terrorists constantly breach and get rid of simple people the reputation of dispersing their faith. However, they fail to understand that religion demands respect and justice for all people. In fact, Our god expectations that we make harmoniously collectively and then leave any type of…Read moreRead more