Top Ten best read stories of 2025

Grant Prior 3 days ago
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The Enquirer is putting out its last daily newsletter of the year today as the industry winds-down for its traditional Christmas break.

The website will be updated with any major breaking stories during the holiday season with the full daily news service returning on January 5.

It has been another eventful 12 months and a busy news year for construction as the Enquirer keeps the industry up to date with what is really going on.

These were the best read stories during the year:

Our most popular stories in 2025

(Number of times they were read)

National Timber collapses with over 560 jobs axed– (190,165 page views)

Illegal working blitz catches Indian builders – (122,194 page views)

HS2 first as giant bridge slid across live motorway – (109,742 page views)

Crane load failure at Hinkley: Video– (105,084 page views)

Aggregates supply firm files administration notice – (88,221 page views)

Wall of six towers planned for north London strip site – (65,589 page views)

HS2 Euston tunnel work put on hold – (63,865 page views)

Henry administrators chase £10m director payment – (63,747 page views)

Alun Griffiths set to rescue firm he sold for £36m – (58,913 page views)

Take That brother buys steelwork giant William Hare – (57,944 page views)

The Enquirer enjoyed another year of growth as busy professionals turn to us for a fast and insightful news fix.

Our daily newsletter now has more than 40,000 subscribers with an average daily open rate of more than 50%.

Google Analytics show the Enquirer enjoyed more than 26 million page views this year from more than 6.7 million users – numbers which dwarf any of our traditional construction media rivals.

Our growing band of advertisers enjoy industry leading response rates and all the details about booking a campaign for 2026 can be found here.

Our recruitment pages are thriving thanks to our unrivaled reach into construction companies while our Suppliers and Buyers Directory has already signed-up more than 6,000 firms from across the supply chain.

We’d like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and here’s to a happy New Year after a well deserved break.

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