And Finally

Scottish Water is using earthworms and water fleas to treat waste water as part of an innovative international study which aims to protect and improve water resources around the world.

Plans have been drawn up to transform public toilets in Glasgow into tourist accommodation.

A building in Moscow where 50,000 people were sentenced to death under Stalin is at the centre of a dispute over plans to turn it into a perfume shop and restaurant.

Bank of Scotland has revealed the design of its latest £20 which will feature a new image of the Forth Bridge and another with the Queensferry Crossing.

A state-of-the-art fully electric gritter will join the fleet of vehicles that will help keep Scotland moving this winter.

A homeowner whose property was blown up by police in an attempt to force out an armed shoplifting suspect will not receive any compensation, a court has ruled.

Police have discovered a massive cannabis farm under a former theatre that was built in 1897. Detectives uncovered the illegal operation after finding a skilfully built 70ft tunnel at a nearby house in Deptford, southeast London.

V&A Dundee has unveiled a new architectural commission to demonstrate the extraordinary creativity that can be achieved when humans and robots work together. The new commission sits alongside the next major exhibition Hello, Robot. Design Between Human and Machine, which opens on November 2

An ambitious project to build a seven-storey museum in the shape of a torus has been made possible with cutting-edge technology.

Tide Construction is closing in on the completion of the world’s largest towers built using modular construction.

A building firm has been ordered to demolish a newly-built £250,000 home. The Press & Journal reports that Aberdeenshire Council’s planners moved in after discovering the detached four-bedroom house had been built without permission on an estate near Banff.

A new hotel is to be built in the rooftop of one of the largest Nazi-era bunkers in Germany.

A court in Germany has ruled that a major Bundesliga club cannot host matches at their new €80 million stadium at night or between 1pm and 3pm on Sundays. Residents near the new SC Freiburg stadium have raised concerns about anticipated noise from the new 34,700-capacity stadium, currently unde

Sir Alex Ferguson is trying to stop a “poorly designed” three-storey mansion being built next door to his home. The former Manchester United manager has objected “in the strongest terms” to plans for the new property in Wilmslow, Cheshire.

Developers are being encouraged to do more to help butterflies, bees and other pollinators in our towns and cities.