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An “exclusivity deal” with the preferred bidder to take forward a potential £50 million waterfront investment plan in Stranraer has been extended. Dumfries and Galloway Council and Stena Line entered into a partnership with the McKinney Group last year.

A potential Tay Cities Deal is a “bigger opportunity” for Dundee than the arrival of the V&A and the wider waterfront redevelopment, it has been claimed. Welcoming progress on the Tay Cities plan, which will see Dundee, Perth and Kinross, Angus and Fife councils working together, Mike Gallow

Councillors have agreed to appoint a design team for the £17 million Helensburgh Waterfront development in Argyll and Bute. The selected team will be tasked to refine plans for the project near West Clyde Street.

A Perth-based stonemasonry company has been fined after an apprentice was electrocuted by an overhead power line. T&M Stonemasonry, of Highfield Road, Scone, Perth, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. It was fined £16,000.

Work on a new £16 million education campus in West Dunbartonshire has been delayed until winter next year due to the discovery of asbestos. Originally scheduled to open in August 2017, the Balloch education campus is being built on the site of the former St Kessog’s Primary and will accommodate a

The £25 million Guardbridge Energy Project moved a step closer to completion when the Vital Energi project team took delivery of the 6.5MW biomass boiler furnace which made the 1,300 mile journey from manufacturers Jernforsen in Sweden. The furnace manufacturer was undertaken at Jernforsen’s own

After a recent win of the coveted Homes for Scotland ‘‘Best Private Development of the Year’ award, for the Woodcroft development in Edinburgh’s Morningside area, Queensberry Properties, and partners, Telereal Trillium, have made it a double celebration, winning the Scottish Homes’ ‘Sho

UK housebuilders have lost as much as 40 per cent of their value since Britain voted to leave the EU on Thursday. The referendum’s result has left the spectre of recession recession looming over the industry and erased the industry’s standing as safe haven stocks.

James Reid Delays in installing passive fire protection could be putting workers at risk, according to one of the UK’s leading passive fire safety specialists.

Partnership work between Scottish Borders Council and community groups in Jedburgh is taking place with a view to bidding for funding for the establishment of a Jedburgh Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS). CARS is a funding programme, managed by Historic Environment Scotland, to support to

As you head to the pub tonight after another hard week be content in the knowledge that you are no different from grafters going back through the millenniums. In fact, some workers who built ancient civilizations spent their entire wage at Happy Hour, it has emerged.

Kier Group has today sought to reassure investors over the company’s viability in the wake of the EU referendum. The property, residential, construction and services group said trading is continuing in line with expectations, adding that while the UK’s vote to leave the EU had “created some un

View of internal street Plans for a housing development which aims to attract key health workers to the north-east have been recommended for refusal by Aberdeen councillors.

A construction worker went on a spending spree after his boss mistakenly overpaid him by £40,000 all because the ditsy manager got a decimal point in the wrong place, according to local press. Steven Burke, of Scarborough, had been expecting to be paid £446.60 but couldn’t believe his luck when

Property developer MNM Developments has started work on an £11 million residential scheme in the heart of Edinburgh. The project, on Marionville Road, near Meadowbank Stadium, is scheduled for completion in early 2017 and is being supported by a £7.7 million funding package from Bank of Scotland.