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A site manager at a local development in Perth has welcomed the newest recruit to his site team – his son, 16-year-old Max Murphy. From Tullibody, Max has joined his dad at Springfield’s Bertha Park Village development on the edge of Perth. He is one of the 77 apprentices at Springfield

A construction team in the US is turning a worksite into something special for young hospital patients nearby by hiding a life-sized Waldo (Wally for our UK readers) for them to find from their windows.

A French man who found a treasure trove of gold bars and coins when he dug up his garden to build a swimming pool may be forced to hand over the hoard to their heirs of its presumed original owner.

A time capsule buried for more than a century in a former Perth school destroyed by fire has been rescued from the ruins. The time capsule was placed in the wall of Balhousie Primary School, then known as Northern District Primary School, during the laying of the foundation stone when the school was

One of Scotland’s oldest pubs, the Crook Inn in Tweedsmuir, is getting a new lease on life with a £1 million bunkhouse set to begin construction.

Restoration work is being carried out around the striking pyramid cairn erected by Queen Victoria in memory of Prince Albert on the Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire.

A trio of thieves disguised as construction workers stole a safe containing more than $3.2 million worth of jewellery from a New York home last month, police said. The suspects, dressed in neon vests and hard hats, broke into the Jamaica Hills residence through a back door around 2 p.m. on Oct. 16 b

Scotland’s first commercial wind farm has been supercharged to deliver more clean energy and a bumper boost to community benefit funds. 

New research led by the University of Stirling has revealed the existence and fate of many fragments of the Stone of Destiny, notably those which were secreted away after the ancient artefact was taken from Westminster Abbey by a group of Scottish nationalist students early on Christmas morning 1950

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro made a personal visit to The National Wallace Monument before deciding to cast the iconic Stirling landmark in his new movie ‘Frankenstein’.

A Labour councillor's trip to the toilet during a meeting of Glasgow City Council's planning committee was caught on camera after the elected member forgot to turn off his webcam. Footage of the incident circulating online shows Bailie Hanif Raja walking into his bathroom and placing his laptop on t

When plans were being drawn up for the new £13.9 million clubhouse at Royal Dornoch, the iconic wildcat coat of arms was integral to the vision.

Work on the groundbreaking Star of Caledonia sculpture on the Scotland-England border will begin in a matter of months, it has been confirmed.

Move over, modern builders — 7,000 years ago, the team at Provadia–Solnitsata in Bulgaria were already raising multi-storey homes, managing a booming salt trade, and performing some very unusual “construction rituals”.

Pedestrians are to be fined for speeding if they walk or run faster than six kilometres per hour in Slovakia. The new speed limit was agreed in the Slovak parliament yesterday through an amendment to new road traffic legislation, according to Swiss website Bluewin.