And Finally

International property and construction consultancy Gleeds has marked its 150th anniversary in spectacular style – teaming up with kite surfer Jake Scrace and stuntman Chey Anich to set a new Guinness World Record.

A nightmare neighbour has been arrested and charged after allegedly tunnelling into an adjacent home following a dispute. Police in the Canadian city of Calgary said the bizarre incidents followed weeks of intensifying conflict between neighbours on two floors of an apartment building.

A Warrington couple were left baffled when scaffolding was mistakenly erected outside their home – nine miles from where it was supposed to be.

The controversial Carbuncle Awards have returned after a decade-long hiatus to hand this year's unwanted title of “most dismal town” – complete with the notorious Plook on the Plinth trophy – to Port Glasgow. Event organisers claimed that despite its “great bones,&rdquo

Residents of a Bavarian apartment block who called police over persistent late-night doorbell ringing were astonished to learn the cause was not pranksters – but rather a slug. The creature had been sliding across the metal bell plate, repeatedly setting off the buzzer and disturbing residents

Hong Kong actor Joel Chan was photographed having a meal at a roadside stall in Kuala Lumpur, with his rugged look leading some locals to mistake him for a construction worker.

Edinburgh's Radical Road is set to partially reopen for the first time in nearly a decade.

A truck carrying a full load of hot dogs left Pennsylvania drivers in a pickle on Friday morning after spilling its cargo across a busy highway.

A Polish CEO has been hit with a wave of online backlash after being caught on camera snatching a hat meant for a child at a tennis match.

Marking 175 years since Prince Albert laid the foundation stone of the National on 30 August 1850, the National Galleries of Scotland has shared its fascinating original building plans. The National is an iconic part of the Edinburgh cityscape we know today, but the building itself could have been v

Royal Mail is introducing 3,500 solar-powered “postboxes of the future” across the UK, marking the biggest redesign in the postbox’s 175-year history.

A patriotic attempt to brighten up a Hereford roundabout went awry when a local accidentally painted the St George’s Cross with inverted colours, leaving the junction looking more Danish than English.

Glasgow councillors have rejected plans to alter the iconic frontage of Barrowland Ballroom. In May, site owners Margaret McIver Ltd lodged an application to install a large LED display beside the neon sign, with additional screens positioned around the canopy.

A rare set of Charles Rennie Mackintosh–designed buildings in Glasgow is to be placed on the market later this year. The Mackintosh Halls, on Shakespeare Street in Ruchill, were purpose-built for the Church of Scotland in 1899 and remain one of the architect’s early and most distinctive