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Plans for a new £4 million visitor centre and 10 new homes at Dunnottar Castle have been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council. Dunecht Estates, which owns the castle near Stonehaven, is proposing to build a visitor centre with panoramic views of the castle.
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A London property fetched a whooping £37.5 million becoming the most expensive UK property sale in Q2 2022. Located at 15 Phillimore Gardens in Kensington, the two-bed house went on sale in May. The semi-detached property was valued at £1.7m in 2002 but has massively increased in value,
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A Melbourne resident received a windfall of $10.5 million (£6.2m) when she was accidentally transferred the sum by cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto.com. The error happened as a routine $100 (£59) refund was being processed to her account by the crypto platform, but the company only
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Scottish Enterprise has launched a Green Heat Hub Grand Challenge to encourage innovation around the green heat solutions of the future, from heat pumps to battery technology, that will lead to the creation of a centre and focal point for collaboration. The project invites consortia groups across in
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Proposals to develop a new "creative hub" at the Briggait have been submitted to Glasgow City Council. Collective Architecture said its design would "grow the cultural community that has been resident in the developed parts of the Briggait complex since 2010" and "knit two disparate halves of the co
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The average price of a property in Scotland in August 2022 was £195,391, an increase of 9.7 per cent on August 2021, the latest provisional statistics from Registers of Scotland's UK House Price Index show. Comparing with the previous month, house prices in Scotland increased by 0.2 per cent b
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The construction sector has breathed a sigh of relief at the end of Liz Truss's troubled premiership — but has urged a "decisive and swift" transition to a new government. Mrs Truss yesterday announced her resignation after just a month and a half as prime minister, having lost political autho
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Swedish furniture giant IKEA is building a case against a video game developer whose new horror game is set in a furniture store. One-man indie game studio Ziggy recently raised almost £57,000 to fund the development of its new survival horror game, The Store Is Closed.
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Plans for a £25 million biogas facility in Easter Ross have been submitted to The Highland Council. Acorn Bioenergy, headquartered in London, is seeking to build the first of a series of anaerobic digestion plants in the north of Scotland on a 7.5-hectare site at Fearn Airfield, near Balintore
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Aberdeen City Council has agreed a timeline for improvements to the city’s schools. The Education and Children’s Services Committee agreed a draft implementation plan associated with the recommended actions to be undertaken to develop the school estate over the next ten years and beyond.
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The new Castlebrae Community Campus was officially opened at a special ceremony last week by the City of Edinburgh Council leader Cammy Day. The £28 million community building on Niddrie Mains Road has been delivered for the Council by Hub South East Scotland Ltd in partnership with Morrison C
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Bosses of a London construction company and a Greater Manchester sports coaching firm have each been banned from running a business for 11 years after abusing Bounce Back Loans. Lavinia-Larisa Mociar, 31, claimed £50,000 to support the Harrow-based construction business of which she was a dire
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Barclays has launched a pilot offering up to £2,000 to its residential mortgage customers that make certain energy efficient home improvements. Energy usage is a top priority for many households, three quarters (75%) of homeowners intend to make energy efficiency-related changes to their homes
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Plans for a new primary school at Chapelton are progressing with Aberdeenshire Council anticipating opening to pupils in 2026. Changes are being made to the Section 75 agreement with developer Elsick Development Company, allowing the school to open in 2026, rather than on completion of the 489th hou
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