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A delicate operation to remove nine old bangers which had been dumped in a Paisley reservoir has been hailed as a huge success by Scottish Water.

To celebrate International Women’s Day yesterday, Home Essentials has re-created Julia Donaldson’s classic childhood tale The Gruffalo and turned it into an extraordinary bedroom.

  A New York-based architecture firm is bringing drinking holes directly into the workplace in a bid to tempt workers back into the office.

A popular coastal path in Strathaird on the Isle of Skye has provided an ideal opportunity to try a sustainable path repair technique that uses locally-sourced sheep wool. The Kilmarie path is well used by the community, as well as people visiting the Iron Age fort at Dùn Ringill, and a 100-m

The first sections of a new assisted living facility in the Falkland Islands have just left the Inverurie headquarters of Scotframe en route to the other side of the world.

For more than 200 years, gas holders have been a feature of Britain’s skyline. In towns and cities up and down the country, gas holders have stood as a visual reminder of our industrial past. But the industry has evolved since gas holders were first constructed to hold town gas in the nineteen

The hourly tolling of two church bells has enraged a woman who is suing her council to have the practice stopped.

Hospitality at the proposed £40m Lomond Banks resort at Balloch won’t just be for guests of the human variety, a warm welcome will also be extended to the area’s bat community with a bespoke state-of-the-art ‘bat hotel’ to be included within the plans.

Construction workers at a Glasgow housing development had an unusual shock when they dug up bones, a skull and wooden coffins this week.

A total of £11 million is needed to make the Granite Mile buildings sparkle again, according to property consultants.

The archaeologists who uncovered Oxford University’s ‘lost college’ think they have now discovered evidence of a 4,000-year-old prehistoric burial mound beneath it. A fragment of skull and part of a human jawbone with some teeth still in place has been unearthed, together with rema

The Calabrian mafia has allegedly been converting cocaine into “coal” to avoid alerting the authorities when importing the product from Colombia. The supposed scheme emerged after 65 people were arrested, including two police officers.

Edinburgh-based community interest company Pianodrome has commenced construction of a 78-seater structure made entirely out of upcycled pianos that is set to open to the public in June.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow, together with partners from Glasgow City Council, NatureScot and Seven Lochs Wetland Park, have developed an interactive web tool to map suitable habitats for a nationally significant water vole species.

A road that once formed a key link in the carrying of coal between the former opencast mine at St Ninians near Kelty and Longannet power station in Fife has been uncovered by the site owners during vital maintenance and repair works in the ongoing development of a proposed Eco-Therapy Wellness and L