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- Backing for Glencraft future plan
A plan to allow the Glencraft furniture factory for disabled workers to remain at their base wins approval in principle. - Furniture site fire investigated
A fire which broke out at a charity furniture warehouse in West Sussex is being investigated by police. - Furniture firm in administration
A Somerset-based company making flat-pack furniture goes into administration. - Pupils' chairs 'pain in the back'
School children risk damaging their backs by sitting on chairs that are unsuitable for them, a report says. - 'Houses shook and furniture moved'
BBC website users report rumbles and rattles as a weak earthquake hits parts of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. - Furniture boss on assault charge
The founder and chairman of furtniture chain DFS appears in court on assault charges. - Global recycling for school desks
A Lancashire charity which sends redundant school furniture to poorer countries is given the backing of the Secretary of State for Education. - Social entrepreneurs: green and good
Companies that care about society and the planet - are social enterprises are the new business model? - MFI management make buy-out deal
Furniture retailer MFI will continue to trade after a management buy-out saved the company from further trouble. - Woman denies luxury fraud charges
A 52-year-old woman has gone on trial accused of fraudulently obtaining paintings, jewellery and antique furniture worth thousands of pounds. - Fire in disused furniture plant
Firefighters tackle a large fire at a former furniture warehouse. - In defence of plastic
Plastic has attracted a lot of bad press recently, with environmental campaigners and government ministers alike highlighting its potentially damaging long term environmental implications. After the BBC's Chris Jeavans spent a month living without plastic, Susan Mossman explores the many inventions that rely on it. - High oil price fuels 'Made in America'
Soaring transport costs have forced Swedish furniture giant Ikea to manufacture closer to its customers in the US. - Charity mops up after heavy rain
Flooding in Nottinghamshire damages a charity's donated furniture store. - Jobs go as furniture firm shuts
More than 60 jobs are lost as a furniture factory closes in Bedfordshire. - Suspected migrants found on lorry
Suspected immigrants from Afghanistan are found in a furniture lorry after they "thump" the walls of a trailer. - Firefighters tackle large blaze
About 100 firefighters tackle a large fire at a furniture warehouse in Rye in East Sussex. - 'Stop nicking my street furniture'
Meet the people willing to fight to the bitter end to keep their old lamp-posts/cobbles/trees/railings. - Furniture sold as monks downsize
Antique furniture at a Benedictine monastery in Gloucestershire goes under the hammer. - Up to 100 jobs to go at factory
About 100 jobs are lost at a factory which makes furniture after it goes into administration.
