The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is to look at the links between the sustainability of the UK’s timber industry, imports of key commodities, and global deforestation. With global timber demand set to quadruple by 2050, and given the commitment to promote timber use in construction as pa
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A businessman and high-profile football sponsor has claimed that he ran up a £20k electricity bill in order to prove his wealth following claims he had run out of money. Hugh Clarke took over the Sizzlers fish and chip shop in Airdrie in May 2020 but shut it down less than three mont
A group of nuns have prevailed in a legal battle over the ownership of a 15th-century convent. A court in Palma de Mallorca found in favour of the nuns, who had been in a dispute with the Bishop of Mallorca.
David Wilson Homes, part of Barratt Developments, is seeking sub-contractors from across Fife to help deliver a new 342-home development in Craigtoun, St Andrews. Work will soon commence at the David Wilson Homes site, which sits close to Younger Gardens in the south-east of the Fife town. The new c
A town mayor — who happens to be a miniature Shetland pony — has been effectively barred from his local pub over a planning row. Councillors in Cockington, a village in south-east England, made Patrick the pony their honorary mayor in a widely-publicised ceremony last month.
Plans for a new £4 million visitor centre and 10 new homes at Dunnottar Castle have been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council. Dunecht Estates, which owns the castle near Stonehaven, is proposing to build a visitor centre with panoramic views of the castle.
Global professional services company Turner & Townsend has reported a strong set of annual financial results across all its global regions, with UK revenue up 17.8%. Turnover and net revenue have risen to £884 million and £779m – increases of 21.5% and 17.2% respectively &ndash
A new scheme is seeking to assist small businesses and start-ups to make more effective use of social media and improve their online profile. Small construction businesses and sole traders could be at a disadvantage and would benefit from assistance to bridge the digital divide between them and larg
A London property fetched a whooping £37.5 million becoming the most expensive UK property sale in Q2 2022. Located at 15 Phillimore Gardens in Kensington, the two-bed house went on sale in May. The semi-detached property was valued at £1.7m in 2002 but has massively increased in value,
Excavation support specialist Groundforce Shorco has added an advanced groundwater management option to YourSolution, its interactive design tool for temporary works. YourSolution v1.3 has launched to help customers include information where groundwater is present within an excavation. However, unli
Real estate advisor CBRE is to offer paid placements to young people across Scotland after expanding its partnership with charity Career Ready north of the Border. Career Ready is a national social mobility charity which boosts the social inclusion and mobility of young people through a programme of
Ogilvie Construction has landed an internationally recognised award for demonstrating high health and safety standards for the ninth consecutive year. The company has once again received a RoSPA Gold Medal Health and Safety Award for working hard to ensure its staff get home safe to their families a
A garden room which has been added to a home in Haddington has gained planning permission despite being described as "intimidating" by nearby residents. The rectangular wooden room, built at the bottom of a garden in Lairds Crescent, in Haddington, was recommended for approval when it went befo
Ogilvie Homes has submitted plans to build nearly 90 homes in Stanley in Perthshire. The developer hopes to erect a series of two, three and four-bedroom homes on land near Mill Brae and King Street.
More than £7.3 million worth of repairs are needed across Scotland's court estate — equal to almost the entire £8m capital budget of the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS). The SCTS set out the estimated cost of maintenance work required to fix leaky roofs, ceilings an da

