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An Angus building firm boss was spared jail for a second drink-driving offence because his business would suffer. The Courier has reported that Craig Hill from Lunanhead appeared at Forfar Sheriff Court and admitted driving while more than three times the limit in the village of Kingsmuir on Septemb

UCATT protesters outside the £212m Dumfries hospital project earlier this month Scottish Labour MSP Colin Smyth has tabled a Parliamentary motion criticising Laing O'Rourke's decision not to allow union officials access to the £212 million Dumfries hospital project site.

A new £17 million Regional Performance Centre for Sport in Dundee looks set to get the go-ahead after the centre was recommended for approval. Dundee City Council’s development management committee meets on Monday to decide the fate of the project.

Industry contractor T Clarke has reported "steady, but cautious" improvements in its core markets despite uncertainty surrounding the UK's decision to leave the EU. The company revealed it has a "strong order book" of over £300 million as its performance "continues to be in line with the Board's ex

Scottish Government reporters have published their recommendations on Fife’s local development strategy. Among the recommendations is a proposal to remove the site for the replacement Madras College at Pipeland in St Andrews; the site has been reinstated as green belt land with no development prop

Andrew Davison Collapsed Dundee specialist engineering firm the Galloway Group and its associated firms owe external creditors £17.6 million, according to administrators Ernst & Young.

Glasgow City Council has announced a £16 million programme to repair at least 20,000 potholes. Around £8m had already been committed to tackle defects in the current financial year and today’s announcement doubles this year’s spending.

Green light for nearly 200 homes on Cambuslang Hoover site Planning permission has been approved for almost 200 houses to be built on the former Hoover site in Cambuslang.

Students will be able to take a theme park-style slide between floors rather than the stairs at a Glasgow halls of residence, according to The Herald. The 15ft-high slide features twirling loops and looks like something out of a water park rather than a traditional hall of residence.

An Edinburgh builder who stole almost £120,000 of VAT that he had charged his customers has been jailed for 20 months after he was investigated by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). David Hay, 56, from Hyvot Grove, ran firms that oversaw major building and renovation works in Edinburgh, Northern Irelan

Charitable trust IMPACT Scotland and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) have developed a proposal to create a new “world-class” arts centre in the heart of Edinburgh. The facility, set immediately behind Dundas House at 36 St Andrew Square, would be the new home of the SCO, as well as

Mark MacMillan Renfrewshire Council has accused whisky firm Chivas Brothers of “treating workers with contempt” over the timing of plans to demolish its Paisley plant.

Tammy Adams Homes for Scotland (HFS) has promoted Tammy Adams to the position of director of planning, responsible for developing and promoting the organisation’s position on local, strategic and national planning policy and practice, and on the infrastructure and utilities needed to support devel

The Property 2016 panel of speakers In a week when, across the Atlantic, the unexpected happened, it was reassuring to find that some certainties remain. In Edinburgh’s city centre it was business as usual, as leading players from the property industry gathered at Property 2016, an event now in it

Kier Group has told shareholders today that it “remains on course” to meet expectations for the current financial year, despite “increased economic uncertainty in the UK following the EU referendum”. Announcing its trading update covering the period from 1 July 2016 to date, the property, re