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The Aberdeen bypass has become fully operational today after the final stretch of the road opened - a decade after the project was first approved. The £745m project - stretching 36 miles (58km) - has suffered a series of delays, and is now expected to cost more than £1bn and stakeholders

Global Surface Intelligence (GSI), the Scottish-based geospatial analytics company providing global resource business intelligence, has appointed Mark Howie as its new chief engineer to head up its team of technology specialists and drive development of the company’s product strategy. Mark has

UK manufacturers say the lack of certainty ahead of the 29 March Brexit resolution deadline is severely impacting their ability to plan for the future. That’s according to the Annual Manufacturing Report 2019, published by Hennik Research and PwC.  The report warn

Owners struggling to bring a long-term empty home back into use are to be given support and advice from a new service being launched by Aberdeen City Council.

Glasgow-based construction firm, City Building, gained a prestigious Customer Service Excellence award, following a rigorous independent assessment.

OPITO, the global, not-for-profit skills body for the energy industry, has appointed Stuart Clow as director with a remit focused on supporting industry safety through high-quality training and competency standards. Mr Clow has over 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry in a variety

The HMRC’s decision to fine a homeless man who had filed his self assessment tax return late has been branded a ‘scandal’ and ‘ridiculous’ by a judge.

Edinburgh-based property developer Qmile Group has been appointed by fund manager M&G Real Estate to deliver its high-profile Haymarket mixed-use development in the Scottish capital. M&G Real Estate acquired the four-acre site in June last year for £49.1m.

Glasgow city council has agreed to exercise its right of pre-emption over The Legacy Hub, in Dalmarnock, meaning that it can buy back the former council-owned land and Hub building from administrators. In 2014, the council and a number of other funders supporting a new community initiative, sold the

Council planners have recommended that plans for around 300 council homes in Aberdeen should go ahead. Planners gave the nod to a revised proposal from First Endeavour LLP to build 283 flats at Wellshead Road in Dyce across four five-storey blocks, the Press & Journal reports

The iconic Woolmanhill Hospital complex in Aberdeen has been sold to local property developer CAF Properties, which has just received full planning and listed building consent to transform the A-listed Simpson Pavilion building into a 52-bedroom luxury hotel.

Next month members of the public will get the chance to see how the new Jedburgh Intergenerational Community Campus is progressing. The project is taking part in Open Doors Day on Thursday 21 March, when the site will be opened up to the public.

Following a report from Citizens Advice Scotland, SNP MSP Clare Haughey is leading calls for the UK government to streamline the complaints process for their flagship energy-saving scheme, the Green Deal. Dubbed the 'biggest home improvement programme since the Second World War' when it was lau

Governments in Edinburgh and London need to deliver a new drive to stop big businesses paying their smaller suppliers unacceptably late, according to the Federation of Small Businesses. Ahead of the Spring Statement next month, FSB’s new Fair Pay, Fair Play campaign calls on the UK Government

A public consultation has been launched seeking feedback on plans to build social housing on the site of the former East Dunbartonshire Council headquarters.