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Stunning archaeological finds unearthed as a result of the construction of the A75 Dunragit Bypass can be rediscovered by reading two publications that are now available.

A first glimpse has been revealed of what people living in Leith up to 700 years ago might have looked like.

BAM Nuttall and design consultants Sweco have won a tender for a new ten-year partnership to take forward an ambitious programme to modernise the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research stations. Commissioned by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), this new partnership provides the framework

Police have been left stumped following the theft of hundreds of trees from the French countryside. Around 400 fine 100-year-old oaks and 50-year-old spruces were cut down in a couple of nights and removed from an area around a village in the Pyrenees.

A lawyer is facing a bill of more than £50,000 after having lost a court battle in a row over a "lovely thick" laurel hedge, The Times reports.

Seville's municipal water company is piloting a programme to generate electricity using the fruit from the city’s 50,000 orange trees.

A cabinet door which is believed to have been from Hitler's bunker has sold for £550 in an auction in Dorchester. The solid Oak door, with a double-headed Reichsadler and a carved date of 1648, was auctioned and sold at Duke's Auctioneer's to a private collector, The Dorset Echo reports. 

The world’s first mixed-use net zero carbon development in a key quarter of Birmingham city centre has been unveiled by Woodbourne Group.

A leading female engineer has called for an end to the longstanding practice on Chinese construction sites of banning women from entering tunnels because it is believed they bring bad luck and trigger their collapse.

BT has revealed that almost 4,000 of its iconic red phone boxes across the UK are up for grabs as it urges local communities to take advantage of a scheme to help transform them for the 21st Century. Since 2008, over 6,600 phone boxes have been taken on by communities for just £1 each through

Tarmac has become the first major cement manufacturer in the UK to move to 50% recycled plastic in its packaging with the roll out of new all-weather, fully recyclable hybrid bags.

A ground-breaking project to store renewable energy using gravity is taking shape in Edinburgh.

A social housing development in Eindhoven has integrated a vertical forest. The first 'vertical forest' in the Netherlands will be integrated into one of two new smart buildings to be built in the city of Eindhoven.

A barn with roots going back to Tudor times is going up for sale with the unique condition that the building has already been dismantled and needs reassembling. St John’s Barn in Suffolk is being sold by Summers Place Auctions this year and is expected to fetch a six-figure sum. The

Up to 2,000 construction workers building a planned 535-acre theme park in Kent could be asked to live on cruise ships on the Thames.