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Plans to build a new £11 million primary school in the heart of East Linton have been unanimously backed by councillors.

Transport Scotland has announced its intention to award two advance works contracts as part of the preparatory works for the A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy project. 

Work is set to commence on a new community hub in Coatbridge after North Lanarkshire Council signed a contract with project partners hub South West and Morgan Sindall.

Active travel around a Dundee community is set to receive a boost with the installation of a new crossing for safer and improved access to the Green Circular route. Work to put in a controlled toucan crossing on the A930 Dundee Road West, just west of Margaret Crescent, as well as a kerb realignment

Members of staff from the Glasgow-based multi-disciplinary ground engineering and construction company, Akela Group, are lending a helping hand to their local foodbank in Thornliebank for the fourth successive Christmas.

The Wellgate Shopping Centre in Dundee was sold to a private investor for £1.4 million on Monday.

Two charities based in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, A Bear Named Buttony and Northsound Cash For Kids, have received a share of CALA Homes' community bursary initiative to help them continue to provide beneficial and vital support to children in the area.

A farmer who destroyed an ancient cairn to use as topsoil has been fined £18,000. Duncan MacInnes used the earth from Upper Tote Cairn in the north of Skye to help with a building project elsewhere on his land.

Lovell Homes, the housebuilder behind a 133-home development in Kinghorn, has donated furniture used in show homes to a local women’s charity that helps those suffering domestic abuse.

The developer behind plans for a block of flats beside the Forth and Clyde Canal near Firhill has lodged an appeal over the lack of a verdict from Glasgow City Council.

Stirling-based procurement services provider PfH Scotland, which represents 95 social housing providers across Scotland, has appointed 25 contractors to its new £0.25 billion Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing 2 (EESSH2) framework.

Housebuilder Dandara East Scotland has donated £1,000 towards Social Bite’s ‘Festival of Kindness’ campaign. The Edinburgh-based homeless charity aims to provide 300,000 meals, gifts, and essential items to those in need throughout Scotland and the UK.

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Police are trying to fill in the gaps to a mystery after a 58-foot-bridge was reported stolen. Treated deck boards on the bridge in East Akron, Ohio, were reported missing at the beginning of November, police say.

The Lochmaben team at roof tile manufacturer Russell Roof Tiles is supporting a children’s charity local to its site this festive season. Russell Roof Tiles is donating £500 to Westsound Cash for Kids – a local charity that helps children across Dumfries & Galloway. Its mission