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Funding boost means green light for £5m High Street library Work to build a new £5 million library in an empty unit on Paisley’s High Street will start this year – in the latest stage of the push to use culture to breathe new life into Paisley’s High Street.

Model railway enthusiasts and volunteers are being sought for an ambitious plan to lay a model railway track along Scotland's Great Glen. The bid, to be filmed for a TV show, involves laying 74 miles (119km) of track from Fort William to Inverness.

The £16.8 million project to revamp the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh has been hit by a delay due to complications with the planned construction programme. The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) said the delay of the planned extension to its headquarters into East Princes Street Gardens,

Northern Ireland construction firm FP McCann is in advanced negotiations with Laing O’Rourke to buy its precast concrete manufacturing plant in Uddingston. It is understood that around 50 staff and assets at the site will be transferred across to FP McCann, and no jobs will be lost.

An indicative image of a potential design for the cinema Plans for a new eight-screen cinema, together with four new restaurant/bar units within the Mercat Shopping Centre in Kirkcaldy, are to go on exhibition to the public for the first time this month.

Proposals for a new bridge to cross the River Spey near Kingussie go on display today as part of the consultation process for the preferred option for the A9 Dualling Crubenmore to Kincraig scheme. The existing bridge and embankment will be removed and a new dual carriageway bridge crossing the Riv

The V&A Museum in Dundee An increase in funding for Scotland’s budget announced by Chancellor Philip Hammond can help tackle Scotland’s infrastructure deficit and boost the country’s competitiveness in the global market, according to RICS Scotland.

(from left) SPF vice chair Andrew Sutherland, Michael Portillo and SPF chair Paul Curran More than 200 delegates gathered at the EICC yesterday as broadcaster and former cabinet minister Michael Portillo, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson MSP and Scottish cabinet secretary for the economy,

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(from left) Stephanie Hyams, Mark Saunders, Mitchell Clarke, Gillian Pettigrew and David MacDonald at the Robertson Collegelands site Pupils at Uddingston Grammar School have been laying the foundations for a career in construction thanks to a new initiative carried out in partnership with Robertson

Graham Simpson MSP with joinery apprentices at New College Lanarkshire Graham Simpson MSP has visited the New College Lanarkshire campus in Motherwell to meet Modern Apprentices who are earning while they learn to coincide with Scottish Apprenticeship Week (March 6–10).

Sophie Martin as Odette and Christopher Harrison as Siegfried in David Dawson's Swan Lake. Photo credit Andy Ross Scottish construction, property and energy businesses give £1.2m boost to culture projects

A feast for all LEGO lovers, featuring over fifty LEGO models including the impressive 2x4m St Pancras Station, has opened at Perth Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition aims to appeal to all ages inspiring creativity and an appreciation of architecture and the iconic scenes that make up our cities

Construction firm Structural Metal Decks Limited (SMDL) has been fined after a worker was left paralysed following an accident at a building site in Kilsyth. The worker suffered injuries to his spinal cord and is now paralysed from the neck down following the incident.

Councillors have voted to continue an application to build new student flats next to the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) until a hearing has been carried out Plans by developers Urban Pulse would have seen the former Jumpin’ Jaks nightclub on Sauchiehall Street demolished to make way for a seven-store