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If your job requires removing your shoes, you'd better have a great pair of socks. On Tuesday, one construction worker shared a photo of the quirky fashion choice he happened to make on the same day his client requested he remove his work boots.

A team led by Brock Carmichael Architects has won a competition to create a more self-sustainable future for the South Atlantic Ocean island community of Tristan da Cunha, a town which lies 1,000 miles from human civilisation. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) competition encouraged i

China's recent obsession with glass tourist attractions has gone round the U-bend with the opening of some see-through treetop public toilets. The BBC reports that the loos, near Shiyan Lake in southern Hunan province, boast panoramas of the surrounding forest’s lush treetops, the silver waters of

Adverts surrounding a Dundee construction site were given a comedy makeover after a joker stuck giant googly eyes onto the billboards. The billboards, which wrap around the construction site for the £28m upgrade to the city’s train station, depict different Dundonians discussing the upgrades to t

A 21-year-old Australian tradesman has been bitten by a venomous spider on the penis for a second time, the BBC has reported. The man was using a portable toilet on a Sydney building site on Tuesday, when he suffered a repeat of the incident five months ago when he was treated for a redback bite.

Acclaimed author JK Rowling has been given permission to build a £2 million equestrian centre at her family home in Edinburgh. The author of the "Harry Potter" book series and her husband Neil Murray were given planning permission by the City of Edinburgh Council last month to erect stables and two

Construction workers at a building site in northern Brazil were rattled by the discovery of a giant 10.5 metre-long snake weighing 400kg. The enormous anaconda slithered out following an explosion at a cave in Altamira, Para.

A pagan from the Borders has crossed swords with planning officials who have refused him permission to build a sacred shrine in honour of Herne the Hunter. Andrew Cleghorn, 52, from Kirkburn, wants to build, on his smallholding, an altar, statue plinth and sacred well in tribute to the god, The Scot

Almost nine out of 10 UK homeowners get cold feet when it comes to hiring tradesmen to carry out home improvement work, according to new research.

https://youtu.be/zBWddXUCBsY The superstructure of what will be the world’s highest bridge has been completed this week in China and a new timelapse video of work on the project to date has been released.

A man tried to drive home on a 2.5 tonne road roller after a night out drinking, a court has heard. The BBC reports that John Johnston, 27, admitted committing the offence in Dumfries at the weekend.

A burnt mound which was uncovered by archaeologists As the fieldwork underway along the West Link route in Inverness draws to a close, a prehistoric arrowhead is just one of the intriguing artefacts of archaeological interest that have been uncovered.

Oor Original was bought for £50,000 - the largest amount of any statue An auction of 70 colourful Oor Wullie statues has raised £883,000 to build two new operating theatres at a children's hospital in Dundee.

A new piece of research has found that those working in the construction industry take less holidays from work than those employed in other sectors. A study by holiday provider Sunshine revealed the majority of those who do not use the most of their annual leave do so because they feel “too busyâ€

Photographs have been discovered which show the construction of a Victorian sewerage system which has served Aberdeen for more than 100 years. The images date from 1900 and 1901 and highlight the dirty and often dangerous work of the men sent underground to burrow out the Girdleness Outfall Scheme.