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A public consultation on tall buildings in Glasgow began yesterday in response to the increasing number of these being built and planned, especially in the city centre and on its fringes.

Kinross-based Lily Finch has been given £1,000 from Persimmon North Scotland to support her international taekwondo ambitions. 10-year-old Lily Finch from Kinross has been turning heads around the world with her Taekwondo skills and has scooped up various world titles over the last two years.

The Barrack Charitable Trust is donating £52,000 to 25 worthwhile charitable organisations across Scotland, in its latest tranche of donations for 2024. Major beneficiaries this time around include Maggie’s Aberdeen, which offers support to people with cancer and their families. The char

A secret society has been covertly refurbishing garden gnomes in a Canadian city, according to reports.

Fleming has welcomed official certification for Midlothian Council's first Passivhaus development.

Environmentally-conscious timber products supplier GMG Energy has formed a new strategic partnership with construction company Hendry Joinery and Builders.

Jupiter Play & Leisure Ltd has won a £500,000 contract to carry out refurbishment works for Highland Council at the popular Whin Park in Inverness.

Plans have been submitted for a new 186-home residential development, of which 46 will be affordable homes, and new school campus in the northwest of Aberdour. Hillside School is planning to create a new modern Additional Support Needs campus within the grounds of its estate, accommodating 35 p

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has received planning permission from East Renfrewshire Council to construct 44 four- and five-bedroom detached homes in Barrhead.

The Highland Council has confirmed the Section 75 Agreement for new homes in Conon Bridge, allowing Tulloch Homes, part of the Springfield Group, to move forward with their approved plans to deliver 160 private and affordable homes in the area. As per the agreement, the housebuilder will provide a &

Principal contractor Procast Group has been awarded a five-year framework agreement by Loreburn Housing Association. Securing a place on the framework is a significant milestone for the business and has been procured through the Procurement for Housing Scotland (EESSH) 2 Framework and will be suppor

A quantity surveyor with the Highland Council who passed away in 2018 has been memorialised in a new social housing scheme in Golspie.

Two previously unknown Roman villas and a Roman roadside cemetery have been discovered following the largest geophysical survey ever commissioned by the National Trust.

A new retail space delivered by Modular West has opened at the world-famous Old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye.

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has urged the UK's new Labour government to "be realistic about the challenges the construction industry is facing".