While sun-lovers might have reason to complain about the British weather this year, it seems to have had relatively little impact on the domestic timber industry, writes Martin Pearce. Bad weather in the first few months did mean that some sectors had a slower start than expected - and it's always difficult to recover lost volumes - but overall the year to date has been reasonably good following a successful 2003, and there is cautious optimism for the coming months.
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