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American actor Robert De Niro has been granted planning permission to open a hotel in London’s Covent Garden. The boutique Wellington Hotel has been given the go-ahead by Westminster City Council.

Some footballers turn to management or television work after they retire but that's not possible for all players. A scheme is helping players in Scotland train for different career options.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the official opening of the Tay Road Bridge. Opened by the Queen Mother in front of a packed crowd on this day in 1966, the crossing connected the city of jute, jam and journalism to the Kingdom of Fife.

Got a spare £25 million? If you do, and you fancy treating yourself, 21,000 acres of prime Scottish countryside, complete with grouse moors, a Speyside salmon beat and rambling Edwardian hunting lodge could be yours.

Eerie photos of abandoned Olympic venues have been published by The Telegraph. While the Olympic Park in London has seen the main stadium. velodrome and aquatics centre all remain in use, what remains of Olympic venues in other countries is less impressive.

Developers and contractors are being warned of the perils of Pokémon Go players trespassing on construction sites, putting themselves in danger in their attempts to “catch ‘em all”. To play the game, players follow their phone’s GPS, which leads them to various places in the real world wher

A builder destroyed a conservatory with a sledgehammer after a dispute erupted over payment on a £30,000 building project. The Mirror has reported that George Gentles, 54, carried out the act after a double glazing firm who had contracted him to carry out £4,100 worth of work refused to pay up.

North Korea is feeding its construction workers crystal meth to try and speed up completion of a new skyscraper, according to reports. The Telegraph reports that project managers in the country’s capital of Pyongyang are said to be under so much pressure to finish the job on time that they have re

A man was forced to postpone the sale of his home after he realised he had been living next door to the flat he owns. Chris Meyer, 30, planned to sell his three-bedroom Carlisle flat to a buyer for £76,000 three years ago.

How the completed Sutton Point development wil look Two construction workers tumbled around on a Sutton building site perilously close to a 10ft drop.

The Caithness Broch Project is planning to recreate Iron Age roundhouses in Lego to loan to museums, encouraging people to find out how they were built and used thousands of years ago. Kenneth McElroy, chairman of the Caithness Broch Project, believes that constructing a replica building from Lego w

Norway is exploring an unconventional and first-of-its-kind form of transportation infrastructure solution to travelling across its many fjords. A drive on the main coastal artery, E39, from Stavanger to Sogneford is less than 250 miles, but takes more than seven hours, traversing as it does countle

Can you teach an old brickie new tricks? 73-year-old builder Pat Griffin is to swap roles with his 29-year-old comedian daughter Jo for a comedy infused, interactive theatre show about loss, family relationships, class and the generation divide. Born in 1942, writer/performer Pat Griffin grew up in

The professional website of Melania Trump, wife of Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump, has been taken down after it emerged that the claim she obtained a degree in architecture was false. The site stated that the Slovenian ex-model obtained an undergraduate degree in architecture from

An Edinburgh businessman has completed a world record attempt to lay the highest floor in the world – at the summit of Kilimanjaro. Richard Snape, who formed The Wooden FloorStore, carried a packet of wooden flooring along the Lemosho route in attempt to break the record for the highest floor in t