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A man has gone viral on social media after sharing his story of accidentally breaking into a home and cleaning it.

Recycled vegetable oil is being used for the first time to heat a home in Scotland.

Paintings by a former labourer with a secret artistic talent are set to go on exhibition three years after he passed away.

A homeowner has gone viral on Facebook after unexpectedly unearthing 160 bowling balls from the foundation of his property. David Olson, 33, discovered the first bowling ball while demolishing the back steps of his house – but went on to discover 159 more, all from the same manufacturer.

A homeowner has discovered an 18th-century Gothic folly made of teeth and bones hidden at the bottom of his garden after living in the property for 25 years. John Bostock was aware that the structure was present as part of his home when he moved in, however, it was not until recently that he discver

A Scottish civil engineer has made it through to the final of an international competition, which challenges contestants to explain an aspect of civil engineering in just 200 seconds. Lauryn Steel, a principal technician with Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Engineering Design Service, produced

A real estate listing on the shores of Lake Erie in Southwestern Ontario is drawing attention online for being apparently entirely underwater. The 7.7-hectare lot in a protected bay on the Canadian side of Lake Erie may look like a steal at $99,000, especially with the average home in Canada no

A chance connection has given a construction worker a second shot at his professional baseball dream. Last year, Jake Marshall thought his baseball career was over. The pandemic shut down the league he played with in California and he returned to Alexandria to set up a home construction business.

A civil engineer has claimed a Guinness World Record for the tallest stack of M&M's. Will Cutbill from Solihull managed to balance five of the chocolate sweets on top of each other, breaking the previous record of four that was jointly held by Silvio Sabba (Italy) and Brendan

A construction worker has confessed to the theft of a Pablo Picasso painting which was personally gifted to the Greek people by the famous painter.

Originally named after Richard Mentor Johnson, Johnson County in Iowa has now taken its name from a different Johnson after hearing that Mr Johnson was a particularly "despicable person". Henceforth, the county is taking its name from Lulu Merle Johnson, a professor and historian who was the fi

Exploration & production company ConocoPhillips has unveiled plans to use chillers as part of a large drilling project in northern Alaska to prevent the ground from thawing underneath key infrastructure. An environmental impact statement published by the Bureau of Land Management said clima

The owner of a San Francisco property modelled on the house of The Flintstones has won a legal battle to keep her "eyesore" life-sized sculptures in the garden. In a dispute that pitted property rights against government rules, retired publishing mogul Florence Fang defended her colourful, bulb

Pupils at Kinmylies Primary School posted a message to the future after placing a time capsule in Inverness West Link’s new Torvean (Swing) Bridge. Kinmylies pupils Meghan Blain (11) and Sean Paterson (11) were assisted by Steve Scott of contractors, RJ McLeod, and Highland Council senior engi

An extremely rare Edward III gold coin lost in the wake of the Black Death has been found by a metal detectorist in Norfolk.