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An Aberdeenshire gravedigger had a more intense Halloween experience than he was probably hoping for yesterday when the walls of a plot he was digging collapsed and trapped him inside.

Accountants handling the winding up of the affairs of collapsed Dundee building firm Muirfield Contracts have warned that the process could yet still take “some considerable time”.

The Construction Products Association’s latest forecasts highlight a mixed picture for the construction industry over the next two years due to the impacts of the uncertainty following the EU referendum.

https://videopress.com/v/qaOsUWDm Almost 600 people have had their say on how the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage Site should be managed.

Aberdeenshire Council has announced “ambitious plans” to create more than 2,500 affordable homes by 2022 at a cost of £135 million.

A Midlothian golf club has received a crucial injection in funds as work gets underway on a new residential development.

CMS Window Systems, the windows systems company based in Cumbernauld, has just won a prestigious European Business Award for the Environment (EBAE).

Often, businesses measure their growth by looking at revenue year on year.

Scotland’s population increase over the next 25 years is likely to be unevenly spread across the country, according to a report issued by the Registrar General for Scotland.

Historic Edinburgh observatory in £4m culture and science hub in restoration plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_fUKDmI8bU They may have been constructed to be "indestructible" but increasing numbers of shopkeepers are refusing to accept new polymer bank notes because customers have taken on such claims as a challenge and are ruining them.

The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh Repairs are needed to almost a third of all NHS Scotland buildings with 50 per cent of the maintenance backlog in some board areas classed as “high risk and significant”, Audit Scotland has warned.

NWH managing director Mark Williams Waste and construction services company NWH Group has secured a £7 million finance facility from Royal Bank of Scotland to help the company fund future acquisitions.

Martin McAlinden Ground engineering specialist Keller has strengthened its presence in Scotland with the appointment of project manager Martin McAlinden to its Dunfermline office.

Construction union UCATT has raised concerns over a decision by two major Scottish infrastructure projects not to reappoint union convenors. The two consortia building the new Queensferry Crossing and the Aberdeen West Peripheral Route (AWPR) schemes have rejected the idea of replacing union conveno