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UK trains delinquents as homebuilders face worker shortage
Almost a million builders will be needed within 10 years as demand for new homes increases and older staff retire
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Thu, Aug 13, 2015 · 09:50 PM
London
AS a teenager, Yasar Ugur spent his time hanging around East London streets getting into gang fights. Now, he's up before dawn to work on a construction site after a Berkeley Group Holdings plc project gave him a fresh start.
"This has got a future," said Mr Ugur, who is now 21 and a trainee site manager for London's biggest homebuilder. "I'm still young and this is the way I'm going to progress in life."
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