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Not satisfied with insulting Muslims and Mexicans, offending women and mocking the disabled, US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has now fallen foul of Aberdeenshire Council’s planning rules. The National has revealed that the council has ruled that two 24-metre flagpoles erected by the property

A young woman in Russia has decided to take road repairs into her own hands after getting frustrated by the number of potholes in her city. Veronika Bobrus, a 26-year-old florist, became an overnight celebrity in Omsk, southern Siberia, after a dashcam video of her filling a pothole at night was pos

Plans have been unveiled to build the UK’s next mega tower, which will rival the Shard for the title of the tallest building in Europe, and will dwarf all other office blocks in the City of London. The 73-floor skyscraper at 1, Undershaft, will be 309.6m high when completed, making it on a par wit

A family of 12 ducks has refused to quack under pressure of construction all around their home in New Zealand. A mother duck dutifully caring for a brood of 11 ducklings while giant construction equipment roared all around was unlike anything Alastair Bennett had seen in his 22 years as a foreman fo

Iconic construction always has a risk to it, so YourTradeBase has created an infographic visualising some of the most dangerous construction projects in history. It features 13 of the world’s most famous construction projects, highlighting surprising death tolls and what caused these fatalities.

China is known for its replicas of famous sights, but one new creation has gone a step further by combining two landmarks into one building, the BBC has found. Half of the structure, located in the northern city of Shijiazhuang, is a copy of Beijing's Temple of Heaven, but the other half is the whit

Staff from a north east builders merchants are spreading Christmas cheer with the publication of a unique calendar created to raise money for two local charities. Brave employees from GPH Builders Merchants, which is based in Westhill, Inverurie and Stonehaven, stripped off for the company’s 2016

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today launched a new award which will celebrate the best new building in the world. Unlike the institute’s prestigious Lubetkin Prize, which was scrapped last year, the competition is open to any building, of any type and budget, in any country

A prankster has put the Forth Road Bridge up for sale on auction site ebay following Friday’s news that the link between Edinburgh and Fife will be closed for the remainder of the year. The cheeky advert was posted by ebay user nicelgin, who placed the ad in the ‘For parts or not working’ sect

John Logie Baird, the man who was the first in the world to televise objects in motion, has been inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. Launched in 2011 by The Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (IESIS), the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame is supported by engineeri

Architect Ian Simpson has apologised for what residents have described as a howl, a hum and a scream emanating from a skyscraper in Manchester. The 47-storey Beetham Tower emits a weird and incredibly loud noise every time the wind picks up.

The completion of what will be the world's tallest tower in Saudi Arabia is finally in sight after developers secured funding to complete the project. Stretching a full kilometre up into the sky, the Kingdom Tower in the small city of Jeddah will finally topple the Burj Khalifa's current record of b

Power supplier SSE has won Ofgem backing to design less intrusive electricity pylons for mountainous areas following complaints that new grid lines through the Highlands are unsightly and harmful for the environment. The BBC reports that another Scots company has won £13 million funding in the same

US eco-friendly home improvement store TreeHouse has bucked the trend and closed its doors on Black Friday. The Austin-based retailer said on Wednesday that it will be closed on Black Friday so workers can spend time with their families. Employees will still be paid even though they have the day off

People working on the construction of a large asylum centre in Enschede were met with a gruesome sight on Wednesday morning. The severed heads of 12 pigs were scattered around the site sometime on Tuesday night. According to newspaper AD, nine of the pig heads were placed on the fence around the sit