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Robert Smith, Chairman of The Management Recruitment Group, has donated an Arsenal FC shirt, signed by Thierry Henry to support the Construction Trade Contractors (CTC) Burns Society. Auctioned by rugby commentator Ian Robertson at a CTC Burns Supper, the signed shirt raised £800 to support The Lighthouse Club and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Children’s Cancer Research Programme.

urapipe is going for gold in China after more than 2000 metres of fuel pipe system Durapipe PL-X was installed as part of the construction of the Olympic Qindao International Sailing Centre, the venue for all of the sailing events at the forthcoming 2008 Olympic Games. The fusion-welded composite plastic pipe system has been installed in the new service station which will refuel the sailing competitors boats. The underground pipework system starts at the filling station for cars, where there are nine dispensers, and finshes at the harbour wall for boats, where there are a further three.