Met Police try to reunite tradespeople with £80,000 worth of stolen tools, major housebuilders get sued and AI boom prompts biggest infrastructure buildout in human history
The Met Police is trying to reunite tradespeople with £80,000 worth of stolen tools.
In a raid on the Hounslow Health Car Boot Sale last December, police recovered around 400 tools, including power drills, nail guns, electric saws and a concrete mixer.
So far the Met has returned around £6,000 worth of tools to their rightful owners.
It has now released images of the stolen tools in the hope of reuniting tradespeople with their kit.
To view the images click here.
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Seven major housebuilders that were investigated last year by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) are now the subject of a class action lawsuit.
The case is being brought by Mark McLaren who argues that homebuyers should be confident that the housing market is transparent and competitive.
The government ended its investigation into the housebuilders last June, after it accepted a series of legally binding commitments, including a £100 million payout to affordable housing schemes.
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The boom in AI is driving demand for tradespeople, claimed Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum at Davos last week, the tech titan said that work building data centres is creating high paying roles for plumbers, electricians and HVAC engineers.
Huang said the AI boom will fuel the “largest infrastructure buildout in human history” that will create a “lot of jobs.”
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