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A mysterious artwork painted on the brickwork of the former Reading Prison is speculated to be a Banksy piece depicting its most famous inmate, Oscar Wilde. The mural shows a prisoner rappelling down one of the prison's exterior walls using paper from a typewriter as a rope.

Rugby union legend Gavin Hastings OBE talks to SCN about his playing career, being a qualified surveyor and his new role as a business consultant for The Shore Group in Scotland. For the uninitiated, and possibly SCN’s younger readers, Gavin Hastings is recognised as one of the outstanding rug

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC

Network Rail has launched an appeal for applications to become engineering apprentices in Inverness and Helmsdale in the Highlands. To mark Scottish Apprenticeship Week, Network Rail is highlighting its openings for apprentice engineers, who will learn and receive expert training and on-the-job expe

Home builder McTaggart Construction has secured a robust future with a management buyout of the company. The business has over 1,500 new homes currently on site, and a pipeline of projects across the central belt with some of Scotland’s largest housing associations and social landlords.

A planning permission in principle application for the Bangour Village masterplan has been approved by the planning committee at West Lothian Council.

The Closeburn community-owned Passivhaus project, the first of its kind in Scotland, has won the “Housing and Regeneration” category at the SURF Awards 2020. Scotland’s Regeneration Forum (SURF) held its prestigious annual celebration presentation on 18th February to announce the w

Glasgow City Council has approved plans to create a pedestrian arch path linking the Laurieston and Gorbals communities. The designs will see a railway arch opened up between Laurieston Road and Cleland Lane as part of a phased project aimed at improving pedestrian connections and public realm in th

Eligible residents across the Highlands could benefit from up to 100% Scottish Government grant funding available for First Time Central Heating. This would be delivered by the Highland Council through the installation of an air source heat pump, new radiators and new controls.

Work is set to start on a new later living village in Inverness this autumn as part of a multi-million-pound investment in care facilities in the city. Independent care home operator Parklands Care Homes is to build 11 homes on a site at Milton of Leys after plans were approved by the Highland Counc

Glasgow City Council is seeking a deal with the Scottish Government to fund run-down pre-1919 tenements in the city. Council chiefs wish to speed up the restoration of the homes which provide one-quarter of Glasgow's housing.

Finance secretary Kate Forbes has confirmed an extended cut to stamp duty for housebuyers in England will not be matched by the Scottish Government. Chancellor Rishi Sunak used his Budget to announce continued relief for property purchases, but the Scottish finance secretary said the temporary reduc

Renfrewshire Council has announced it will invest £112.98 million in council housing over the next three years and will implement a council tax freeze. The council's Housing Capital Investment Plan will invest money £20.40m in 2021/22, £42.83m in 2022/23 and £49.75m in 2023/2

Work on the proposed extension to Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh is set to begin early next month and be completed by June 2022. The design by architects Holmes Miller consists of an elegant, cohesive extension to the existing school building, set over 5 floors, with 12 new general purpose and

A new multi-million pound distillery near Grantown being built by Morrison Construction for Moray whisky specialist Gordon and MacPhail (G&M) is set to open next spring.