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The bidding process to apply to become one of Scotland’s two Green Freeports closed yesterday with five bids received by the Scottish Government. Bids from Clyde Green Freeport and Aberdeen City & Peterhead Green Freeport joined competing entries from Opportunity Inverness a

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has donated £500 to the Penicuik & District Men’s Shed in recognition of Men's Health Awareness Week (13-19 June). The money provides a boost to provide materials it requires to kit out the resource it now has within the Penicuik YMCA following its recent

Miller Homes' Evergreen Manor development is helping Kilmaurs Tennis Club with its fundraising efforts to repair its perimeter wall and flood lighting with a £250 donation. Evergreen Manor development sales manager, Emma Sneddon, met with the club's Coordinator, Iain Maitland, along with his d

Businesses in Renfrewshire can apply for a new grant bringing them big benefits and playing their part in Renfrewshire achieving its climate change targets. The £500,000 Net Zero Business Fund has been created by Renfrewshire Council and is now open for online applications.

Loanhead Primary’s Health Week was given a boost thanks to a £250 donation from housebuilder Dandara East Scotland.

Argyll and Bute Council has approved nearly £600,000 investment in projects aimed at revitalising town centres across the area. The funding comes from the Scottish Government’s Place Based Investment (PBI) Programme, and Crown Estates Fund. Projects include:

National rail contractor QTS Group has completed the construction of a new rope access training centre at its Scottish headquarters in Drumclog, South Lanarkshire. Work on the bespoke, state-of-the-art facility was completed in February 2022 and has been audited and approved by the Industrial Rope A

Scotch Whisky Investments (SWI) has unveiled proposals for a new mixed-use development in Falkland, which will incorporate a new corporate headquarters building, and an expansion of a proposed whisky storage facility in Glenrothes.

Joanne Plant (MRTPI) has joined Savills as an associate director in the company's planning team in Scotland. Based in the firm’s Glasgow office and focusing largely on the company’s fast-expanding renewables planning consultancy, Joanne will work alongside Simon Herriot, Savills director

Keppie Design has lodged detailed plans for 55 flats for social rent at the site of a former Glasgow car dealership. Working with Southside Housing Association, AS Homes (Scotland) Ltd wants to build new homes at Arnold Clark’s Vauxhall showroom and service facility on Pollokshaws Ro

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Forth Ports Limited.

A floating restaurant that was a famous Hong Kong landmark has sunk, days after it was towed away from the harbour where it operated for nearly 50 years. The Jumbo restaurant capsized in the South China Sea while on its way to an undisclosed location, its parent company Aberdeen Restaurant Enterpris

Angus construction company Pert Bruce has marked a return to pre-pandemic trading with a warning of the challenges of rising material costs and energy bills.

The Highland Council and its local partners have been successful in securing grant funding under the Scottish Government's Strategic Timber Transport Scheme for repair works to be carried out along the U1992 Evanton to Swordale road.

The company responsible for safety failings that led to a man falling to his death through a severely corroded platform at Longannet power station has been fined just £5,000. Gary Robertson from Cowdenbeath died from his injuries after the near-30ft drop onto concrete in February 201