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Up to 2,000 construction workers building a planned 535-acre theme park in Kent could be asked to live on cruise ships on the Thames.

An airport which splashed nearly £2.5 million on a runway extension can't use it because it's in a blind spot for the airport's control tower. Victoria International Airport in British Columbia, Canada completed the works in fall 2019 at a cost of $4.3 million CAD (around £2.5m).

A mysterious artwork painted on the brickwork of the former Reading Prison is speculated to be a Banksy piece depicting its most famous inmate, Oscar Wilde. The mural shows a prisoner rappelling down one of the prison's exterior walls using paper from a typewriter as a rope.

Heriot-Watt University has joined forces with Brewster Bros to create new materials from the residual waste left over during the recycling process.   Recycled clay can account for up to 25% of the output produced when excavation waste is recycled via a washing process. This by-product comm

Researchers in the north of Scotland and Wales are trialling a new method of measuring tidal currents which could revolutionise the marine renewables industry.

Excess heat recovered from the sewage treatment process could be used to power more than 2,000 homes thanks to a new carbon-cutting partnership between Thames Water and Kingston Council.

A Victorian villa on the NC500 route in the Highlands once owned by Scottish singer Gerry Rafferty is non the market.

The Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation has applied to get planning permission for a statue in central Glasgow renewed.

Toyota Motor Corporation has started work to build an entire town from scratch and use it as a laboratory for cutting-edge technology such as self-driving cars and artificial intelligence.

Biologically inspired materials, able to grow and adapt to their environment, could extend the lifespan of electronic devices, medical implants and infrastructure, and unlock an array of environmental benefits, according to a report by the Royal Society.

A company in Columbia has found a novel use for the husks discarded when coffee is roasted by turning them into building materials.

A railroad engineer who deliberately defecated on company property and said it was a "present" for his boss has kept his job. Matthew Lebsack was fired by US rail giant Union Pacific after the incident in November 2016, but a federal appeals court has reluctantly reinstated him.

Stopcocks Women Plumbers is calling on tradeswomen from all industries to join its new National Register of Tradeswomen, which launches officially on March 1.

Scottish star Lewis Capaldi has secured planning permission for a major expansion to his luxury home in East Renfrewshire.

One of Edinburgh’s best-known landmarks, which for decades has been a romantic meeting place for lovers and couples in Scotland’s capital, was restored in time for Valentine’s Day by Johnnie Walker.