AND FINALLY
Industry rises to Maddie’s Day yellow challenge
When this industry is set a task, it goes all out to complete it. Maddies’ Day 2026 once again asked the sector to Wear Something Yellow, and share pictures of everyone’s efforts in all their yellow glory.
Behold, gentle reader, the building materials sector in all its magnificent yellow glory, not only raising the profile of the Maddie Rose Foundation, but paying tribute to a beautiful young woman who loved this sector so much. Whether it was Keystone’s cake baking, Collier & Catchpole’s Dad-dancing or Keyline’s epic Thames bridge trek, the industry pulled together and put their best yellow feet forward. Literally, in one case.
BMJ BRAIN TEASER PRIZE CROSSWORD
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Across 8 Track performer, perhaps (7) 9 Spock-like (7) 10 Squirmed (8) 11 Power source (6) 12 One responding to a stimulus (7) 13 More often than not (7) 14 Twitcher’s cover (4) 17 Split or indentation (5) 19 Bridge section (4) 23 Vets (7) 24 Piccadilly hotel (3,4) 25 Drawn to end the game (6) 26 Spherical (8) 27 Missing a piece (7) 28 Passage (7)
Down 1 Large pig (8) 2 Had Latin corrected in the Far East (8) 3 Agree it got made over in Surrey (7) 4 Recommen dation (8) 5 Duke whose family name is Seymour (8) 6 Explanatory drawings (8) 7 Flowering garden tree (8) 15 Fomenting (8) 16 In perpetuity (8) 17 Ammunition case (8) 18 Road accident statistic (8) 20 Easy (8) 21 Jesus’s childhood home (8) 22 Balkan native (7)
WIN a bottle of something fizzy from BMJ’s local award- winning winery Chapel Down. Simply send in your completed scanned crossword entry, including your name and address to
bmjournaldotnet@gmail.com by the end of the month. Or, post it to BMJ, Dateam Business Media, 15A London Road, Maidstone ME16 8LY.
Entries must be received by October 31 Last month’s solution
Across: 8 Phrase, 9 Neophyte, 10 Plymouth, 11 Hung up, 12 Sixty-three, 14 Cake, 15 Shopping trolley, 18 Ship, 20 Optimistic, 22 Balaam, 23 Rosemary, 25 Forensic, 26 Onions.
Down: 1 Childish, 2 Palm, 3 Deduct, 4 On the right track, 5 Cochlear, 6 Phone calls, 7 Struck, 13 Tape player, 16 Iron mask, 17 Emigrant, 19 Head-on, 21 Mascot, 24 Main.
• Last Month
Congratulations to the winner of our last crossword, Lee Cannon of Hevey Building Supplies Ltd. Your prizes will be with you in due course.
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