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Dubai’s billionaire ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum has fitted solar panels on his Highland estate without planning permission.

Shouts of “shame” echoed through the council chamber as Swindon Borough councillors narrowly approved plans to rebuild a local leisure centre – the domed complex often linked to Britpop band Oasis. The Oasis centre, famous for its lagoon pool under a distinctive dome, first opened

Bellway’s construction team recently surprised one-year-old Harris Beattie at the company’s Landsdale development in East Kilbride, creating a day to remember for the construction enthusiast.

A former forklift operator has seen a change of career pay off after landing a monthly commission of £10,000 for selling property. Myles Eddy had been working in a warehouse in Cumbria when he accepted a job with Glasgow-based Prime Property Auctions less than two years ago, banking the huge p

A significant collection of 400,000-year-old Palaeolithic tools, unearthed in Kent, has sold for more than £41,000 at auction.

A radioactive wasp nest was discovered by workers at a nuclear facility in the US last month.

Residents of Castle Cary, Somerset have celebrated the fourth birthday of a sinkhole.

Games Workshop, the company behind the globally popular Warhammer game, has revealed that the presence of a single bat is delaying its plans to expand operations in Nottingham.

New legislation aims to make it easier for Americans to finance tiny homes.

Architect Jim Webster, co-founder of HAUS Collective, led a team of seven Scottish friends on a 1,000-mile cycle from Land's End to John O'Groats, raising almost £50,000 for two charities supporting people living with cancer.

A raccoon that captured the hearts of the internet after being left on a Toronto sidewalk has now been immortalised with a commemorative plaque, marking the 10th anniversary of a moment that became a social media sensation.

A planning appeal to convert a former gasworks site in Innerleithen into a storage yard has been rejected, after historic Google Earth images contradicted claims made by the applicant, RCR Limited.

Road marking and highway safety services provider WJ Group has revealed what it believes to be the world’s first fully electric thermoplastic road marking truck, designed to boost sustainability in the highways industry while delivering a full shift on a single charge.

A Toronto construction worker is winning hearts with a soulful remix that’s gone viral.

Archaeologists in the Bohemia region of the Czech Republic have discovered a significant 2,200-year-old Celtic settlement, described as "unparalleled in its scale and character". The vast 25-hectare site was unearthed during a survey for a new motorway near the city of Hradec Králové.