Whether you think they’re tremendous or tasteless, lots of us like to spread a little Christmas spirit by hanging lights and other decorations on our homes or in our front gardens.

For some people, delighting the neighbourhood with a larger than life Christmas light show is so important that it borders on obsession. And in some suburbs, the friendly competition to be crowned Christmas light king is the most exciting thing that happens all year.

How can a glue gun, heat gun, rapstraps, cable ties or weatherproof box come into use this Halloween?

Well, if you're creating your own costume, looking to make your home spookier or get the kids doing some Halloween crafts, we have just the tools to make those tasks that little bit easier.

Tools to Help Create Halloween Costumes

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In today’s contemporary world of laptops and tablets, smartphone’s and the Cloud, the idea of charging devices or routing electrical power through cables seems almost archaic. However, on the contrary, cables are still integral to receiving and distributing power.

Inductive charging (wireless charging that uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy) may well be one of the more talked-about innovations of recent times, however large-scale... READ MORE

We are many things at Hilltop, providing useful cable management products to a huge range of clients. However, we would be the first to admit that the connections between our world and that of high fashion have been tenuous at best. 

But that was before the day golfer Brooks Koepka, from West Palm Beach, Florida, stepped proudly out onto the East Lake golf course in Atlanta, Georgia.  And all of a sudden our worlds were set to collide.

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Health and safety is often treated with a degree of casual disregard – characterised by busy-bodies with nothing better to do than interfere with the workplace or conceive of ever more Byzantine rules for how your business must be conducted.  However, this is a serious business.  For instance, in the US it was recently calculated that injuries in both the home and at work were actually the leading cause for death amongst people aged up to 44. ... READ MORE