Kier, once regarded as one of the UK's brightest housebuilders, is to pull out of private housebuilding.

Interserve has been named as preferred bidder for the PFI contract to create and maintain a new acute hospital at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

The government's plan to build three million homes in England by 2020 will fail unless ministers intervene further in the housing market, the National Housing Federation has warned.

Under pressure aggregates group Ennstone confirms that it has received a preliminary approach which may or may not lead to an offer being made for the company.