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A group of construction workers were left stunned after they found a message in a bottle from a team of builders who worked on the same site more than 50 years ago. Anthony Gibbons discovered the hidden message alongside his colleagues on Tuesday while they were turning a swimming baths in Hexham, N
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Lloyds Banking Group has announced plans to transform its Edinburgh city centre site into a state-of-the-art innovation hub.
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Regeneration specialist Artisan Real Estate is progressing with the demolition of the former Deutsche Bank House in Edinburgh, making way for a homes-led redevelopment of the site.
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The Edinburgh Boiler Company (EBC) is hoping for a triple success after being nominated in three categories at the prestigious H&V News Awards 2024.
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A man who allegedly rubbed his bare buttocks on a public water fountain has been charged with property damage. Police found an incriminating photo after arresting the 56-year-old Tokyo man in connection with a separate incident of public indecency.
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A Shetland apprentice, a plasterer from East Kilbride and a construction worker from Cumnock were all given prestigious industry awards by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). Highland lad Christopher Smith took home the National Construction College (NCC) Outstanding Apprentice of the Y
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The opening of two primary school in Midlothian has moved a step closer after plans were submitted to the local authority. Midlothian Council is pressing forward with plans to open an eight classroom primary school and nursery in Bilston as well as one on land east of Whitehouse Way in Gorebridge. P
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is looking for a contractor to start work on the £17m national nuclear archive at Wick, Caithness. The building, work on which will start next summer, will provide long-term storage for a huge volume of records and other archive material from civil nuclear site
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A 22-year-old man has been arrested after a three-hour pursuit of a 44-tonne digger. Leicestershire Police said the man called them in the early hours of the morning to say he had stolen the bulldozer.
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A surreal new artwork makes it look as though a 40-foot building in London’s historic Covent Garden Market is floating away. The mind-bending installation by British artist Alex Chinneck uses digital carving and a four-tonne counterweight to make the amazing structure.
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The bidding process for firms to design and build a new £75 million women's prison in Greenock has opened. The Scottish Prison Service is looking for five companies to be involved in the construction process.
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A blue light has been installed at the end of a train platform in Tokyo and it has only one purpose: to stop people from jumping in front of oncoming trains and killing themselves. First installed on Tokyo’s Yamanote train line in 2009, these blue LED lights are one example of Tokyo’s idiosyncra
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Hotel and leisure facilities could be incorporated into a planned transformation of Dundee College’s Constitution Road campus, it has been revealed. The area has been empty since the college left in 2011 and since then the site has been a target for vandals and thieves.
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Melbourne surfers could ride 1.5-metre-high waves within a heated salt-water pool in plans set out for the city's docklands. Damian Rogers Architecture has collaborated with engineering giant Arup to conceive and propose the idea for Surf Park Docklands – a contained pool with that would filter in
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