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Aberdeen has beaten off stiff competition from the likes of Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Leven to win the award nobody wants, the Plook-on-the-Plinth trophy for Scotland’s most dismal town handed out as part of the annual Carbuncle Awards.

Argyll and Bute Council has now issued contract notices following its decision last summer to invest over £2 million to save Dunoon’s historic wooden pier work. Last week the local authority issued the contract notice for the Phase 1A works which are aimed at repairing the pedestrian walkway, the

Leanna Fry By Leanna Fry, site manager at BAM Construct UK Ltd

Work on a new leisure centre in Irvine is to begin in March after the £20 million construction contract was awarded to Barr Construction.

Building work has started on an £8 million private care home in Newton Mearns. Located at the corner of Waterfoot Road and Broom Road East the state-of-the-art home is being built by Marshall Construction Ltd for Meallmore.

A legal challenge over a 103-turbine wind farm in Shetland has been unanimously rejected by the UK Supreme Court. Scottish ministers approved the plan from Viking Energy for a large windfarm in the Central Mainland of Shetland in 2012, but planning consent was set aside in October 2013 when campaign

Fife Architects has obtained full planning approval for the new Fleming & Gibson bathroom showroom in St Andrews.

Construction workers have been revealed as the most generous workers when it comes to treating their partners on Valentine’s Day.

An Arbroath quarry operator has been fined for serious safety failings after a dumper truck driver died when his vehicle reversed over a stop block to the quarry floor below. Joseph Troup, 76, from Forfar, had worked for D Geddes (Contractors) Ltd at its Hatton Mill Quarry in Kinnell, Froickheim for

A jobseeker received what could be the rudest ever rejection letter, describing him as a "d**k" and "an old, aesthetically challenged guy with no teeth". James Allen, 48, failed to impress his prospective employers at interview, but was shocked to receive the email tirade when he asked for feedback.

Royal Hospital for Sick Children Edinburgh and Department of Clinical Neurosciences view from above Construction of a major new healthcare facility in Edinburgh is set to start after the financial contracts were agreed.

The Saltire Society has launched its 2015 awards to recognise design excellence across five categories – including a brand new ‘Landscape in Housing’ award. The Saltire Housing Design Awards have been running since 1937 and are open to projects completed in Scotland over the past five years. A

Edinburgh's Old Town is protected under Unesco laws An award-winning conservation architect has warned that Edinburgh is in danger of being crippled by a planning system “terrified of offending” the city’s World Heritage status.

First minister Nicola Sturgeon was in the Granite City yesterday to kick off work on the £745 million Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie-Tipperty road scheme.