Tradesmen across the UK are being encouraged to get hands-on to ‘check their tools’ are in good working order by builder’s merchants MKM to mark April’s Testicular Cancer Awareness Month.
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An architectural studio has unveiled plans for a new artificial intelligence innovation campus designed to be visible and recognisable from space.
A man who has a large rock at the end of his driveway to stop people using his drive to turn their cars around has defended his actions. Motorists who have used Mark Coultous’ driveway to turn around lately have bashed into a big rock with ‘NHS’ written on it in paint.
Swedish vodka-based schnapps brand Flävar, known for their indulgent spirit drinks, has launched a range of flavoured lickable vodka wallpaper designs.
The ownership of New York's famous Flatiron Building is up in the air after a man whose $190 million bid won an auction to acquire the landmark has failed to make the first down payment.
A Cornish tower is to be moved and reinstated brick by brick to avoid falling into the sea. The Storm Tower at Compass Point in Bude will be relocated a few hundred feet inland after the Bude-Stratton town council was awarded a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £249,362.
Prison officials in the US have been left red-faced after two inmates tunnelled their way to freedom using a toothbrush. Prisoners John M. Garza, 37, and Arley V. Nemo, 43, used "primitive-made tools constructed from a toothbrush and metal object" to "exploit a construction design weakness" in Newpo
A giant illuminated ‘W’ sign at the top of Edinburgh’s ribbon hotel has been deemed to be ‘too prominent’ in the city’s skyline and inappropriate in the World Heritage Site.
Builders used iron staples to support Notre Dame's masonry during its construction in the 12th century, it has been revealed.
JPMorgan Chase has recently discovered that years ago it mistakenly purchased bags of stones that were thought to contain nickel due to a mix-up at a Dutch warehouse.
A retrospective planning application has been lodged to enable a giant light-up dinosaur head to remain in place on the roof of a Moray shop.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has announced plans to build the "world’s tallest spokeless ferris wheel". Dubbed Seoul Ring, the 180-meter (591-foot) spokeless (or hubless) ferris wheel will greet the city's skyline from 2027 when it opens at Haneul Park in Sangam-dong, Mapo
The site of Banksy’s latest work, an outside wall of a derelict farmhouse in the seaside town of Herne Bay in Kent, has been demolished. The mural, titled Morning is Broken, depicted a silhouetted young boy – next to a silhouetted cat in a window – opening corrugated iron “cu
A 13-year-old boy from Fraserburgh has become one of the youngest people in the UK to qualify to drive a trio of massive machines. Jake Campbell has passed the construction exams required to operate a telescopic forklift, a 30-tonne dumper truck and a quarry-loading shovel.
Rishi Sunak’s new private heated swimming pool uses so much energy that the local electricity network had to be upgraded to meet its power demands, according to reports. The Guardian has reported that extra equipment was recently installed in a remote part of North Yorkshire to provide extra c