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A 90-year-old Canadian has made headlines for digging his own grave. "I love digging," Jimmy Kickham, from Prince Edward Island, told CBC News, saying he feels pride in his personal project.

The Princes Square shopping centre in Glasgow has been voted as Scotland's best building of the last hundred years. Announced by cabinet secretary Fiona Hyslop on during the Festival of Architecture’s finale Light Nights event in Dundee on Friday, the winning entry was one of 100 buildings of the

The £250 million Aberdeen City Region Deal agreement was officially signed today, paving the way for investment in infrastructure across the region. The terms of the deal commit both the UK government and Scottish Government to jointly investing up to £250m whilst Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeensh

Ruby McGregor-Smith Mitie has issued its second profit warning in two months as the outsourcing firm faces fresh hits from economic uncertainty and rising staff costs.

Over 1,000 jobs across 32 depots are at risk at crane hire specialist Hewden after negotiations with potential new investors are understood to have stalled. Sky News has reported that the firm called in EY to act as the company’s administrators.

Morris & Spottiswood group managing director Jon Dunwell (left) and LLED construction principal Dee Addison Fit-out contractor Morris & Spottiswood has sought to make greater inroads into the northern England maintenance market with the acquisition of Cumbrian maintenance specialist LLED Con

Anderson Construction's work for Calor Gas in Dyce Anderson Construction has announced the award of a number of new contracts totalling more than £3 million in value.

Part of the main arterial route between Scotland and England re-opened to traffic at over six hours ahead of schedule following the first planned closure of the road in its 50 year history. As part of the £500 million M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Project, the M74 was closed to traffic in both d

Planning submitted for Aviemore Premier Inn LMA Architects have submitted a planning application for a new Premier Inn in Aviemore.

An underwater tunnel linking Mull to the mainland is being proposed as a solution to the island’s continuing transport problems, the Herald has reported. Islanders have long campaigned for ferry timetable improvements and, although ferry operator CalMac has put on extra summer sailings, the winter

Michael Laird Architects have unveiled plans for a residential-led mixed use redevelopment of land owned by Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh. The practice has prepared a planning in principle application for the redevelopment of land at Dundas Street/Fettes Row.

An Angus building firm boss was spared jail for a second drink-driving offence because his business would suffer. The Courier has reported that Craig Hill from Lunanhead appeared at Forfar Sheriff Court and admitted driving while more than three times the limit in the village of Kingsmuir on Septemb

UCATT protesters outside the £212m Dumfries hospital project earlier this month Scottish Labour MSP Colin Smyth has tabled a Parliamentary motion criticising Laing O'Rourke's decision not to allow union officials access to the £212 million Dumfries hospital project site.

A new £17 million Regional Performance Centre for Sport in Dundee looks set to get the go-ahead after the centre was recommended for approval. Dundee City Council’s development management committee meets on Monday to decide the fate of the project.

Industry contractor T Clarke has reported "steady, but cautious" improvements in its core markets despite uncertainty surrounding the UK's decision to leave the EU. The company revealed it has a "strong order book" of over £300 million as its performance "continues to be in line with the Board's ex