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Computer generated image of the new A9/A85 road junction Plans to grow Scotland's newest city have taken a significant step forward with the awarding of the contract to deliver the first phase of major new transport infrastructure to enable the expansion of Perth.

Aberdeen City Council has approved a preferred option for a key junction for the £26.4 million Berryden Corridor Improvement Scheme. The scheme is designed to help traffic move around the city better and work alongside the improvements already delivered by the new crossing over the River Don which

Aubrey Fawcett Inverclyde Council has appointed Aubrey Fawcett as its new chief executive to replace John Mundell OBE who is set to retire from the council in September.

Andy Willox Funds coming to Scotland from the UK government’s apprenticeship levy should be spent on vocational skills academies, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

Plans have been submitted for hundreds of homes at a brownfield site on the edge of Perth. Glasgow-based consortium Perth City West has outlined proposals for up to 270 new homes on the site of the former Perth Mart off Crieff Road.

Glasgow City Council has approved grant agreements with partner organisations to regenerate areas and communities along both sides of the Forth and Clyde canal on the north side of the city centre. These grant agreements - with Scottish Canals and BIGG Regeneration - will help deliver funding worth

Apprentices at CMS Window Systems meet Jamie Hepburn, Scottish Minister for Employability and Training, on his visit to CMS’s Cumbernauld site to see first-hand the impact of apprenticeships and youth employment schemes on the local workforce CMS Window Systems has received praise from the Scottis

Queensberry announces Peebles Hydro development Developer Queensberry Properties, a partnership between Cruden Homes and land and property experts Buccleuch Property, has announced plans for a development within the extensive grounds of the famous Peebles Hydro Hotel in the Scottish Borders.

Equipment supplied by Seddons Plant & Engineers Ltd will be used to help try and smash the world land speed record next year, it has been confirmed. Seddons is providing a total of five Honda Generators for use by the BLOODHOUND project team during its attempt next October, 20 years after the ex

The director of an Edinburgh construction company, who lied about her business expenses in a VAT fraud, has been jailed for two years after an investigation into her company’s finances by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Avril Jane Elliott, 49, from Gilberstoun in the Brunstane area of the city, ple

The Mossend site Scottish ministers failed to give “proper, adequate and intelligible reasons” for granting plans to build a rail freight super-hub on greenbelt land in North Lanarkshire against the wishes of the local authority.

Jamie Boot Henry Boot has become the latest construction company to announce an increase in profits in the wake of industry-wide post-Brexit concerns.

Plans to develop a £33 million sports and health facility at the University of Strathclyde have been given the go-ahead by Glasgow City Council. The University said the “leading-edge” Sport, Health and Wellbeing centre will transform its current facilities in a new, state-of-the-art building on

A £12 million hydro power station has been officially opened in the Highlands. Situated on the Abhainn Chia-aig river 20 miles north of Fort William, RWE Innogy UK’s latest run-of-river hydro scheme in Scotland was officially inaugurated yesterday by Paul Wheelhouse MSP, minister for business, in

Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel Group has agreed a new ten year lease on its Glasgow-based headquarters at 1 Atlantic Quay. The company said the £4 million deal signals its long term commitment to do business in the city. Mactaggart & Mickel is also investing £400,000 to refit the office