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Towns and communities in North Lanarkshire will benefit from £1.243 billion investment over the next five years to transform them into vibrant, thriving, sustainable places, the local authority has revealed. North Lanarkshire Council said local people are at the heart of its ambitious vision a

A vicar has defended a decision to host a four-day beer festival in a church graveyard – where revellers sat on headstones and used graves as tables. Reverend Martin Anderson, who organised the festival at St Mary the Virgin church in Stockton-on-Tees in north-east England, said most people &l

Doctors in Lithuania have removed more than a kilogram of nails and screws from the stomach of a man who started swallowing metallic objects after quitting alcohol. The man, who was not identified for reasons of patient confidentiality, was admitted to hospital in the Baltic port city of K

The furlough scheme which has protected jobs and earnings, as well as cheaper mortgages and a benevolent approach to short term arrears by lenders, has meant the residential sector has been the star performer of the Scottish economy after it reopened following the initial Covid-19 lockdown, the 

Independent property advisory firm Lismore Real Estate has predicted that the Scottish investment market will have a "strong run to the year end". According to the firm's review of the Scottish investment market for the third quarter of 2021, after a significant increase in quarter two, transac

Aberdeen-based Drum Property Group has posted a £1.4 million profit for the 12 months to December 31 2020. The firm is currently working on large-scale development projects throughout the UK across the residential, leisure and business space sectors.

Interserve Group has sold its global equipment services business RMD Kwikform (RMDK) to the Altrad Group to concentrate on its rebranded Tilbury Douglas construction business. The sale is part of the planned restructuring of the group, which has also seen the sale of businesses including I

New regulations that provide for the preparation, submission and registration of Local Place Plans (LPPs) have been laid in the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish Government said the Town and Country Planning (Local Place Plans) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 are an important part of the legal

Sanjeev Gupta's GFG Alliance group has announced a debt restructuring programme and investment of £50 million in UK production. In the steel manufacturing group's latest update it revealed that the firm will inject £50m of new funding into LIBERTY Steel UK (LSUK) to enable the restart of

Construction information provider Glenigan's acquisition of Construction Information Services (CIS) was officially confirmed last week. Founded in 1972, CIS is Ireland’s leading provider of business intelligence to the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland construction industry. It supplies

Plans by Rural Stirling Housing Association to build 11 affordable houses have been given conditional approval by Stirling Council’s Planning and Regulation Panel. The proposed development site just outside Killearn, bounded by Lampston Road to the north east, Station Road to the north west an

Councillors in Aberdeenshire have been updated on the progress of a multi-million-pound upgrade of the primary school estate in Fraserburgh and Stonehaven. In March, Aberdeenshire Council agreed plans for a new primary school to replace the existing Fraserburgh North and St Andrews Schools as w

A Bosnian man has built a rotating house so his wife can have better views of the surrounding area. Vojin Kusic, who is 72 years old, told Reuters he was tired of her complaints and frequent refurbishing of their home. Mr Kusic told his wife that he would build her a rotating house so she could "spi

A parking space located opposite Harrods has gone up for sale for £250,000. However, the underground car parking spot is too small to accommodate the large cars favoured by customers who are able to afford to park in Knightsbridge.

Morris & Spottiswood has appointed Brian Pettigrew as director of its housing division, incorporating private housing arm Crosbie Homes. Bringing a wealth of experience from across the industry, Mr Pettigrew's addition to the team will allow Morris & Spottiswood to increase focus on dev