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A Babylonian treasure will be handed back to Iraq later this month after UK border officers foiled an attempt to smuggle it through Heathrow Airport. The 30cm-high inscribed stone, dating back more than 3,000 years, was one section of a larger antiquity that is believed to have been looted from sout

Infrastructure services firm FM Conway has installed what is thought to be the UK's first three-dimensional road markings on a zebra crossing to get drivers to slow down. The firm is working with Westminster City Council in St John’s Wood, where it currently holds a highways term maintena

Archaeological excavations of the Old West (Queen’s) Dock opposite Leith's ocean terminal are revealing part of the port’s Napoleonic defences. The remains the Georgian and Victorian docks are being excavated by AOC Archaeology with the City of Edinburgh Council, and preserved 

The University of Bath is testing a number of waste materials to assess their thermal performance as potential materials for insulating buildings. A collaborative project with the University of Brighton, UniLaSalle in Rouen, France, and five other academic and non-academic partners is investigating

A Scottish firm that has pioneered technology using plastic waste to surface roads has opened its first factory in Dumfries and Galloway. The MacRebur plant in Lockerbie will granulate rubbish which would otherwise have gone to landfill to help produce asphalt.

Historians have appealed for help in piecing together the life and work of a Scots pioneer of female architects, mysteriously murdered in Fife 51 years ago this month, The Scotsman has reported. Kathleen Veitch was born in 1907 to a tweed manufacturer in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, and raised near Haw

A forgotten treasure trove of Victorian photographs showing the construction of parts of one of Scotland’s most important pieces of infrastructure has been unearthed. The Katrine Aqueduct, which takes water to treatment works that supply 1.3 million people in Glasgow and west central Scotland,

Electrotechnical trade association SELECT has been highlighting the achievements of electricians in Scotland for 119 years but now the organisation is in the unusual position of championing a triple champion. Joe Buchanan, 57, from Ayrshire, who became a SELECT member 10 years ago, is now recognised

A London-based banker has been awarded £500,000 in damages after successfully suing the architect he claimed did not deliver the “wow factor” when he built a home cinema suspended above an indoor swimming pool at his £7 million home. Philip Freeborn, a former head of operatio

A plan to name a new street after one of the most ruthless figures in Scottish history have been met with opposition from Highland councillors. According to The Scotsman, housebuilders Barratt Homes proposed that one of 12 new streets in a development near the Culloden battlefield be named after Wil

A retired couple from Cheshire who were were granted planning permission for a warehouse on their land have been told to tear the building down following a ten year planning stand-off that ended in it being determined that they had built the structure to be a home.

Child-shaped bollards installed by an English council with the intention of dissuading drivers from speeding near schools have been rotated after they were branded "creepy" by residents. The bollards were installed in the Buckinghamshire parish of Iver earlier this year, with Buckinghamshire CC sayi

Engineering firm Colas has teamed up with construction machinery specialist Highway Service to maximise on site safety by beaming a clear red danger zone around its biggest machines. Colas believes the system will make a significant difference in terms of on-site safety – preventing accidents

According to the United Nations, in 2050 the world’s population is expected to be around 9.8 billion, which is expected to grow to an astonishing 11.2 billion people in 2100. Back in 2010, Tokyo, Japan had the biggest population of any city on the planet with a population of over 36 Million pe

A landmark Stirling building whose profile was transformed when a mural by guerrilla artist Banksy appeared on it earlier this year has been put up for sale with a huge price tag. The 22,000 square foot building at the city's Craigs roundabout is owned by Edinburgh property investment company S