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A worker who was unfairly dismissed for refusing to join his colleagues in the pub after work has won a case against his erstwhile employer. Mr T, not to be confused with he of A-Team fame, was a senior advisor at a firm in Paris.

A family of four were charged more than £80,000 in error after EDF sent a £1 million electricity bill. Richard Baron from Kent thought the bill was "quite amusing" at first until the energy provider proceeded with the first direct debit payment, leaving the family more than £7

A video of a man using an old scooter as a unique construction tool has been shared online. In the video, one can see the man is using his Bajaj Super scooter to uplift the construction material using a rope tied to the engine. 

The next phase of the British Antarctic Survey’s modernisation programme is set to begin with a 6-month construction season at the Rothera Research Station. The station is the UK’s largest Antarctic research and operations hub that supports leading researchers in frontier science in the

Charlotte Church has won planning permission to open a green wellness retreat - complete with a “womb room” - at a mansion in a Welsh valley. The singer bought Rhydoldog House, which was once owned by the Laura Ashley family, while it was halfway through a renovation and has sp

Paw Patrol's construction pub Rubble will take to the screens next year in his own spin-off of the popular kids' show, Nickelodeon has announced. Rubble & Crew, set around the character of the beloved bulldog, will debut on the children's network on February 3rd.

A Dutch supermarket chain was forced to pull a World Cup advert featuring singing and dancing construction workers after a backlash from fans and human rights groups. The television commercial by Jumbo featured orange-clad workers smiling and laughing as they performed a conga line through a scaffol

Plans have been revealed for Scotland’s first underground ‘Hobbit Village’ in the Borders.

A 19th-century jail in southern France is to become a luxury hotel after being sold under a programme to modernise the country’s prisons.

The tallest residential skyscraper in the world could be built in Dubai, according to reports.

Biotecture has designed and installed a green hoarding for Mace on the construction hoarding of the new Stonecutter Court development in London.

A man has returned from holiday to find his house had been stripped of all its furnishings and sold from under him without his knowledge. Reverend Mike Hall, from Luton, had been alerted by neighbours to explain that it appeared someone was in his home and that all the lights were on.

A plumber working in an Edinburgh flat was astonished to find a 135-year-old message in a bottle under the floorboards. Peter Allan cut a hole in the floor of a flat in Morningside when he discovered the whisky bottle complete with a rolled-up note.

An Edinburgh shop ordered to replace its purple frontage with a "dull grey" has launched a petition to keep its colourful façade. The owner of House of Boë, a gin shop on South Queensferry High Street, was ordered to restore the original grey which was replaced with the bright purple in

Robots in construction can help maintain productivity at a time when fewer people are pursuing a career in the industry, a new report has found. Management consulting company GlobalData said the construction industry’s lack of digitalisation and new technologies mean that companies will strugg