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An electrician who admitted secretly filming more than a dozen people in private situations over the course of a decade has been jailed.

A car park built for £51 million in Oxfordshire is lying empty because a council cannot connect it to the main road.

Plans for a £40 million holiday village featuring a monorail and water park on the banks of Loch Lomond should be refused, according to a new report.

The next steps in a major investment across the East Kilbride and Barrhead railway lines will begin this month.

Scottish renewable energy projects with a joint capacity to generate almost 2GW of clean electricity have today won contracts in a vital UK auction.

The Scottish Government has granted consent for the construction and operation of the Smeaton Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), a 228MW:456MWh project near Dalkeith, East Lothian.

Gairnshiel Jubilee Bridge has been crowned winner of the Best Infrastructure Project at the 2024 Scottish Civil Engineering Awards held in Edinburgh.

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Sidey is celebrating after its apprentice installer Billy Bagnall won the prestigious Modern Apprentice of the Year award at the DYW (Developing the Young Workforce) Awards held at the Apex Hotel in Dundee last week.

Brickwork subcontractor Lee Marley is starting 10 apprentices this term taking the company’s total to 30 Scottish apprentices in full employment.