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A private developer of luxury retirement housing is considering banning residents from smoking in the privacy of their own homes – even though they’ve bought the property. Castle Retirement Living (CRL) has justified the proposal at its new flagship scheme, Castle View Windsor, on the grounds of

Leading artists including Sir Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Simon Starling have used material from the fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art to create new work and raise funds, the BBC has reported. Twenty-five international artists were sent debris from the Mackintosh library, which was gutted by f

Courtesy of Organic Architects Residents of a Devon village have objected to plans for a nearby whisky distillery because it looks too “Scottish”.

Quick-thinking demolition workers used a crane to rescue a stranded dog after it plunged ten feet into the Firth of Forth, STV has reported. Steven Woods was taking his dog Sasha for a walk around the Cockenzie Power Station site in East Lothian at lunchtime on Wednesday when she jumped over a wall

The winner of the ‘Ladder Losers’ competition, formerly the 'Idiots on Ladders' contest, has been announced by the Ladder Association. The Association said the winning submission by former Ladder Council member, John Bungay, displays incredibly dangerous ladder use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys4_NtdPi8A Nineteen buildings were demolished in central China on Saturday in less than 10 seconds, marking the country’s largest building implosion project.

A property company is suing a local authority which has objected to a fish-and-chip franchise tenant on the grounds that its name – Moby Dick – may cause offence to some sensitive souls thereby causing the value of property in the area to fall. The council believes that the second word in the re

A newly built modern palace overlooking Los Angeles has just become the most expensive home listed in the United States with a price tag of $250 million. CNBC has revealed that the 38,000-square-foot mansion in Bel Air, California, will officially come on the market this week — eclipsing the curre

Sam Barsky likes to knit. He also likes to travel. So what better way of combining the two than knitting jumpers of famous landmarks and then wearing them to those places. From Times Square and Niagara Falls to Stonehenge and Tower Bridge, it seems Sam has "been there and got the sweater".

Work to lay four miles of pipeline between St Andrews and Guardbridge has uncovered a hoard of Neolithic pottery and flint tools which had lain buried for over 4000 years. The surprise find at Kincaple, three miles west of St Andrews, was made as engineers laid pipework to connect St Andrews Univers

It was a video of a Toronto man dancing while on a construction job, shared among family and friends on Facebook, that instead quickly spread like wildfire to reach tens of millions people worldwide… and even got Hollywood’s attention. The man at the centre of it all is Tony Restivo. He can be s

The iconic Eiffel Tower is set to undergo a €300 million (£263m) programme of enhancements to the Eiffel Tower as the city bids to host the 2024 Olympic Games. Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announced she would lodge plans with the local planning authority to renovate and modernise the tower with th

A pothole detector fitted beneath bin lorries is being trialled in Thurrock and York. The technology aims to monitor road surfaces and detect problems before they become potholes.

Major plans to transform the A303, which will see the construction of a tunnel at the historic Stonehenge site, have been unveiled by the Department for Transport (DfT). The A303 that runs past the World Heritage Site in Wiltshire is a notorious bottleneck on the route to the South West.

A new substance using the wonder material graphene has been developed which is 10 times stronger than steel but has just five per cent of its density, The Herald has reported. Graphene discovered by Nobel prize winning scientists at the University of Manchester is just an atom thick and is a two-dim