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A giant 30-metre sinkhole that opened up in the Japanese city of Fukuaka was repaired within 48 hours. Following undergoing emergency repair work to the 15 metre deep hole that included repairs to sewage pipes, utility poles and traffic management systems, the hole was filled within two days.

US President-elect Donald Trump has won a battle over a flagpole on the grounds of one of his Scots golf courses. The billionaire tycoon erected the 80ft pole flying a Saltire outside his Menie Estate clubhouse at Trump International Golf Links last year. But Aberdeenshire Council ordered him to rem

Workmen building a high school in southern China were dynamiting through bedrock – and when the dust settled, they found they had inadvertently uncovered a well-preserved dinosaur skeleton. It turned out to be the first example of its species, which scientists have named Tongtianlong limosus – w

The Forest Green Rovers’ football club will soon be the owners of a football stadium made almost entirely out of wood. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the new 5,000-10,000 seater stadium will be the first of its kind anywhere in the world.

Locals in Pitlochry and visitors to the Perthshire town will welcome news that a proposed dualled section of the A9 between Pitlochry and Killiecrankie will have no impact on the venue for the hugely popular “Enchanted Forest” event held in Faskally Wood every autumn. The preferred route for the

A developer in England has applied for planning permission to build an experimental house that could rise on jacks above flood waters If tests are successful the house could provide a model that would enable housebuilding on thousands of sites across the UK which at present cannot be developed becau

A church has been forced to remove a huge 12ft wooden cross – because it forgot to apply for planning consent. The Scotsman reports that the cross was fixed last month to the outside of the Grade B-listed Gilfillan Memorial Church, in Dundee, which was built in 1887.

Bob Watt An architect who made a key contribution to the regeneration of Levenmouth is to be commemorated with a street named after him in Kingdom Housing Association’s latest development at Methil Brae, which Kingdom is developing for Glen Housing Association.

  A pair of Australian construction bosses have managed to dupe authorities in one of the most authoritarian nations on earth into letting them compete in a international professional golf tournament.

  Glasgow’s iconic Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed ‘House for an Art Lover’ is transforming from one of Scotland’s most popular tourist attractions into a B&B for an exclusive overnight experience for two – for the first time in the building’s 20-year history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFnW7fYKPVs&feature=youtu.be Access to Scotland's first community-owned craft whisky distillery could be provided by an "electric elevator".

An Aberdeenshire gravedigger had a more intense Halloween experience than he was probably hoping for yesterday when the walls of a plot he was digging collapsed and trapped him inside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_fUKDmI8bU They may have been constructed to be "indestructible" but increasing numbers of shopkeepers are refusing to accept new polymer bank notes because customers have taken on such claims as a challenge and are ruining them.

Grant Henderson Tankers (GHT) is a waste removal company, with quite simply one of the best email addresses in history. The Glaswegian firm is responsible for pumping the human waste out of mobile toilets, and according to its website it also does drain unblocking and 'septic tank services'.

Network Rail is calling for help to solve a 71-year mystery after detailed drawings for a second rail bridge over the Firth of Forth were found hidden in an old box under a desk in Glasgow. Historians are trying to find out why the plans, dating back to 1945, which would have seen a second bridge be