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First minister Nicola Sturgeon with Paul Little, principal and chief executive of City of Glasgow College as they meet cadets A new £66 million “world-class campus with the ‘wow’ factor” opened on the banks of the River Clyde yesterday.

Ayrshire College’s new campus project in Kilmarnock has been awarded a BREEAM “outstanding” rating at its design stage. The accreditation is the highest standard awarded and has been secured by only three buildings in the Scottish further and higher education sector.

Councillors have today sounded what could be the death knell for development plans for an area of Common Good land in Forres. Members of Moray Council’s policy and resources committee agreed unanimously to recommend to the full council that plans for the site at Bogton Road should be abandoned.

Fergus Ewing Ministers are seeking a role in EU level talks on steel dumping.

A builder who fraudulently obtained £1,162 after he pretended to obtain planning permission for a client’s house extension has been given a community payback order. Janice Quinn, from Dunfermline, was falsely informed by Derek McCafferty that planning permission had been granted for plans to buil

David Philp delivering his keynote speech Over 130 senior executives attended the BIM Convention at the Glasgow City Hotel last week to listen to a wide variety of presentations on what BIM means for the construction industry.

Councillor David McBride, West Dunbartonshire Council convener of housing and communities, and Margaret Burgess MSP, housing and welfare minister, joined council representatives, contractors CCG and other politicians for the official opening of 37 new build council homes at Hillstreet Square, Dumbar

A city in Morocco is to become home to one of the world's largest solar power plants aiming to deliver half the country's energy by 2020. Based near the Sahara desert, Ouarzazate will see a complex of four linked solar mega-plants that, alongside hydro and wind, will help provide nearly half of Moro

The City of Edinburgh Council has unveiled plans to build 14,000 homes in the next ten years costing the local authority nearly £300 million. The proposals, which are designed to tackle the city’s growing population, are to be present to the council’s finance and resources committee on October

Argyll and Bute Council has approved a planning application for a new fish processing facility on a disused brownfield site in Cowal. A total of £19 million will be invested in the construction project making a significant contribution to employment opportunities in the local area.

Stirling-based housebuilder Bett Homes has changed its name to Avant Homes. The company said the decision comes two years after its parent company became Avant Homes.

Denise Brown An Aberdeenshire painting and decorating firm has appointed a new finance director to its board.

Small and medium size businesses (SMEs) in the Glasgow and Clyde Valley area can find out for free how they might share in over a billion pounds worth of investment being delivered through the City Deal.

John Moore Esh Border Construction will be inviting potential partners to ‘Meet The Buyer’ next month in Uphall.

(from left): Lynn Stodart (CCG Group HR manager), Gerry McGinn (GMG Contractors managing director), Linda Sichi, (Milnbank Housing Association depute director), Gary McGregor (CCG, Group managing director), Annabelle Ewing (minister for youth & women's employment) There was cause for celebration