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A finance manager who stole £370,000 in company cash to buy pedigree kittens and sustain a high-class lifestyle has been jailed for four years. Matthew Farrimond, 41, admitted 12 counts of fraud and one offence of money laundering while holding a senior role at a construction firm near Manchester.

Image: Alan McAteer Local councillors have suggested recreating the Glasgow School of Art's famous Mackintosh Building in the East End of the city, the Evening Times has reported.

The Qatar capital of Doha Saudi Arabia is pressing on with plans to dig a 60km canal along its border with Qatar which would effectively turn the latter into an island.

The Trimontium monument Work to install a new water main in the Scottish Borders has uncovered sections of 2000 year old Roman wall which was part of the famous Roman settlement of Trimontium.

  A replica of Fettes College is to be recreated in China as a result of a new deal signed by the private boarding school.

Festung Marienberg - view from Alter Main Bridge © ARGE HA/RAA/W+W A consortium of Hoskins Architects, Ralph Appelbaum Associates and Wenzel+Wenzel has been appointed to design the new Museum für Franken at Marienberg Fortress in Würzburg.

(from left) Douglas Millican, chief executive of Scottish Water, cabinet secretary Roseanna Cunningham, and Terry A’Hearn, chief executive of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) sign the Sustainable Growth Agreement (image credit Paul Watt) Scotland’s sewage and solid organic waste

The world's first sea-going car and passenger ferry fuelled by renewable energy is to be developed in Scotland. The vessel’s fuel will be produced from renewable electricity marking a paradigm shift towards entirely emissions-free marine transport.

A new report produced by an influential think-tank has called for residents to be invited to help design new houses in their neighbourhoods in order to tackle ‘nimbyism’ and increase building rates.

A 20-metre-high sculpture made from 7,506 barrels has been unveiled in London’s Hyde Park. Floating on the Serpentine Lake, The London Mastaba has been entirely funded by artist and creator Christo to realise his and late wife Jeanne-Claude's determination to make art free.

Construction workers from Peru have been caught downing tools to watch Los Incas play their World Cup opener against Denmark. The video, which seems to catch the workers unaware that they are being recorded, displays the workers dancing and chanting in unison.

A group of construction workers suffering through the recent heatwave in the south of England have worked a flanker on health and safety officials who had banned them from wearing shorts on the sweltering site – by wearing dresses and skirts instead. According to reports in the Daily Mail, the men

FORE Partnership, the real estate investment platform behind the 94,000 sq. ft. speculative Cadworks office development in Glasgow city centre, has underlined its commitment to the city's most vulnerable communities by forging a partnership with Soul Riders, the social enterprise that refurbishes a

The Falkirk Wheel, the world’s only rotating boat lift, is to be transformed into a unique pop-up theatre venue telling two of literature’s most iconic tales this summer.

  The project to build what will be world’s longest span suspension bridge once complete has reached financial close.