Couple renovating their home find bricklayer’s 70-year-old note hidden in sweet tin in walls

Couple renovating their home find bricklayer’s 70-year-old note hidden in sweet tin in walls and have launched search to find his family Karl Church and partner Eve Jones found note at their Northampton home   Note was written by a John Rainbow in 1953 and was discovered by Mr Church   It read: Bricklayer rate 3/6 ½. February … Read more

Bricklayers are the fittest workers in Britain averaging burning 2,500 calories a day

Bricklayers are the fittest workers in Britain averaging burning 2,500 calories a day while IT workers are the unhealthiest notching up just 24 minutes of activity a day, study reveals Survey of 2,000 workers from around the UK found bricklayers were most active  IT workers were ranked as the least active, with just 24 minutes … Read more

Boris urged to make it easier for migrants to plug shortage of bricklayers, welders and BUTCHERS

Boris Johnson was urged to make it easier for migrant workers to enter Britain to become builders and even butchers today – as he launched a scheme to provide new skills for Brits left unemployed by coronavirus. The independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) recommended that meatsellers, bricklayers and welders be added to the UK’s shortage … Read more