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A visual artist who worked as a carpenter for 25 years is using the tools and components familiar from her daily experience of construction to help make paintings, prints, and sculptures. Rachel Yoder, who lives in a mountain valley near Nelson, British Columbia, has explored how work

A couple who purchased a home fully aware that bees were potentially living in the wall were shocked to learn that an estimated 450,000 of the insects had called the place home for almost 35 years.

A dispute between neighbours over an apple tree that allegedly attracts wasps has incurred at least £200,000 in legal costs. Barbara Pilcher, who is allergic to wasps, took her neighbour Antoinette Williams to court over her alleged failure to dispose of rotting apples falling from the tree.

Staycationers can tick one off their bucket list this summer as KFC plans to open a pop-up fried chicken hotel in London.

There are, of course, many different trades involved within the construction industry, from surveyors to bricklayers to roofers. But what about those who give the important finishing touches to a new development – the construction painter, or painter and decorator. This got us thinking. How lo

Kinloch Castle has been put up for sale for just £1. The castle, which is currently owned by Scottish National Heritage, is located on the Isle of Rum off Scotland's west coast.

An IKEA worker from South Queensferry fulfilled his childhood dream by building a ‘hobbit house’ in his back garden. Ali Hughson, 47, has been a fan of the JRR Tolkien books since he was a teenager and loved the idea of having a hobbit-themed workshop.

Aberdeen Football Club has commissioned a statue of Sir Alex Ferguson to commemorate his outstanding contribution to the Club. The bronze statue, which will be located on the external concourse outside the Richard Donald Stand, will be the first of a series which is being planned to celebrate and ho

Scotland captain Andy Robertson is engulfed in a dispute with a neighbour over plans to build a swimming pool at his English home. The Glasgow-born Liverpool FC defender wants a 41ft pool in an extension to his £3.3m home in a select part of Wilmslow, Cheshire.

Lawyers are debating how to deal with a German man who had an anti-aircraft gun, torpedo – and a tank – in his basement.

Network Rail engineers have constructed what is believed to be Scotland's first ‘beaver pass’ under the Highland mainline.

Over a thousand computers used to mine cryptocurrency have been crushed by police using a steamroller.

A seven-foot-long scale model of an offshore vessel made famous in recent film Tenet from Batman director, Christopher Nolan, has gone on display at an Angus port.

Ornithologists working at an onshore wind farm in Scotland had an unusual brood to monitor when rare ringed plover nested at the foot of a 126-metre wind turbine.

Unused energy trapped within bridges is to be harvested in a major new international project led by Heriot-Watt University.