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The head of a real estate agency which claimed to have sold a flat to a dog has been arrested in Iran. The arrest came after the agency published a video showing a couple signing over their home to a small white dog named Chester, The Jerusalem Post reports.

Environmental services company Recycl8 has been awarded with a six-figure grant from the Low Carbon Manufacturing Challenge Fund (LCMCF). This LCMCF is facilitated by Scottish Enterprise as part of the Scottish Government’s initiative, ‘Making Scotland’s Future’, to promote l

Perth & Kinross Council (PKC) has become the first place in the world to use spiral-flow battery technology to reduce its carbon footprint. Designed, developed and manufactured by StorTera, an Edinburgh-based developer of intelligent energy storage solutions, the project aims to develop a protot

At the launch of its development of new homes for sale in South Queensferry, Taylor Wimpey East Scotland teamed up with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to donate £25 for each new home sold and legally completed at Hawthorn Gardens. The latest tranche of £1,525 was donated this mo

The barriers faced by ex-offenders looking to kick-start their lives with a career in construction are at the centre of a Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) survey. CIOB is appealing to built environment professionals to take part in its latest research study, promoting the possibility of reduci

Moving and handling heavy or bulky objects on construction sites is needlessly harming the health of tens of thousands of workers every year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned. Working in construction is a physically demanding job and many construction workers’ health is sufferi

As the doors and sash windows close on the 11th Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival, organisers at the Edinburgh Traditional Building Forum hailed it a great success.

Dandara Aberdeen is to continue its support of an Aberdeenshire sports and community centre by renewing its sponsorship of its annual 10K road race.

Glasgow City Council has announced £5.57 million of funding to regenerate five vacant land projects after a report confirmed the continued fall in derelict sites in the city. The fall in derelict and vacant land between 2021 and 2022 was 32 hectares (4% of the total), down to 848 hec

Scottish housing minister Paul McLennan visited Hillcrest’s Cove development on Tuesday to mark the official opening of another phase of affordable homes. The Cove development, constructed by Stewart Milne Homes and situated with picturesque views overlooking the sea at Falkland Avenue, repres

Home buyers in Scotland are sharpening their focus on their income long term when shaping the criteria for their first or next home due to the cost-of-living crisis, a new report from Barratt Developments has found.

Osprey Housing has appointed two new ‘apprentice’ board members to help widen diversity and deepen understanding of the communities it serves. Joining as Osprey’s first non-voting boardroom apprentices are Lauren Allan, an assistant technical co-ordinator with Barratt Developments,

The Scottish Government has made an award of £6.845 million to help make homes in Glasgow more energy-efficient.

A fascinating film on the Antonine Wall will be the focus of special canal boat trips.

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