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An artist has transformed her parents’ house into an elaborate haunted house for Halloween. Christine McConnell decorated the house for the spooky occasion after being inspired watching "Monster House".

The boss of a company at the centre of a road rage row caught on CCTV says he has fired the van driver seen in the footage. The manager of APC Lofts in Salford, who did not want to be named for fears over his safety, said he was “appalled” at the driving of one of his former joiners on the M62.

A Halloween display depicting dead construction workers has been erected in a small US town by locals fed up with never ending road repairs. The elaborate display includes skeletons operating backhoes and a local tram falling into an enormous hole. A skull and crossbones on an orange road sign warns

The house where Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead is now set to be used as a party venue by two local businessmen. Footage has emerged of business partners David Scott, 33, and Kagiso Mokopane, 23, giving a candid tour of the house, beers in hand, exp

A Boeing 737 aeroplane fuselage is to be transformed into a dining area at an entertainment centre in Glasgow. The go-karting and leisure centre named The Experience, based in Hillington, is located at a former Rolls Royce Aero factory and the social enterprise is looking to reconnect with that hist

Proposals have been unveiled to clean up a dirty unused canal in Berlin’s historical centre to create a place the public can literally dive into. Called the Flussbad (“river pool”), the goal of the project is the permanent transformation of a 1.5km stretch of river that has gone unused for mor

Contractors, designers and developers can now experience projects before they start on site, thanks to the creation of a new virtual reality dome. The Immersive Dome from Soluis creates a fully immersive experience which allows users to engage with 3D environments.

Architects have unveiled plans for a trio of housing towers in Vietnam linked by aerial bridges and shielded from the harsh tropical sunlight by swathes of bamboo. The three 22-storey-tall blocks will be linked by a planted roof garden and bridges, and a series of small pavilions that overlook the w

A 1,200ft-long foot bridge offering dizzying views across the Geierlay canyon in Germany opened to the public on Saturday. Thousands of thrill-seeking tourists have been making the trek across the bridge, which is suspended 300 feet (91 metres) above a scenic forested valley between Morsdorf and Sos

A Chinese tourist has had the shock of his life after a glass walkway suspended 3,500 feet above the ground cracked while he was standing on it. Lee Dong Hai was enjoying the view from the Yuntai Mountain walkway when he heard a cracking sound.

Employees working in construction have taken more time off work due to serious injuries sustained on the job than almost any other industry. 38 per cent of construction workers recently surveyed had taken time off work because of a major injury while doing their job, compared to an average of just 1

The Forth Rail Bridge has today been named the nation’s favourite example of Scottish engineering. A survey commissioned by the Low Carbon Infrastructure Task Force, to mark the launch of the search for Scotland’s low carbon infrastructure icons of the future, saw the Forth Rail Bridge gain 49 p

A group of hapless raiders managed to partially demolish a building as they tried to pry an ATM out of the wall - but still left empty-handed. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the bungling criminals tried using a digger, two lorries and forklift truck to remove the cash machine, but to no avai

Tarmac has invented a new type of porous concrete that can absorb up to 4,000 litres of water in the first 60 seconds, and an average of 600 litres per minute, per metre squared. The Topmix Permeable concrete works by having a permeable layer on the surface, made up of relatively large pebbles throu

A woman ended up in hospital after apparently managing to mistake a can of expanding builder's foam with her hair mousse. The image of the unnamed woman has been shared all over the internet after she was said to have ended up in the A&E ward of a hospital somewhere in Eastern Europe.