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A ‘community pantry’ which provides food and groceries to around 80 families a week in Ramsbottom has applied to make buildings set up during Covid lockdowns a permanent fixture.

School pupils got hands-on construction experience at a special event to provide a platform for future careers development.

High school pupils across North Lanarkshire have benefited from a new classroom session looking at how technology is transforming the construction industry.

Work to widen the roads and construct crossing points around Westfield roundabout is expected to start in the summer after councillors agreed to appoint an engineering contractor to the project.

Graham Simpson MSP met with the staff from ScotRail and Balfour Beatty who are redeveloping Motherwell Station and heard first-hand about the project’s progress to date.

Love was in the air when a brave groom got down on one knee to propose at the top of the Forth Bridge.

Forth Valley College's Falkirk campus could be named the best new building in the UK, having made the shortlist for the UK’s most prestigious architecture award. It is one of six UK buildings to be in the running for the Stirling prize for architecture, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Advance works for the Comrie Flood Protection Scheme are set to “begin shortly”, according to Perth and Kinross Council.

Dundee City Council legal advisors are refusing to say whether they can extract any compensation from the builders behind Dundee's crumbling Olympia leisure complex.

Pupils at a Lanarkshire school were among the first to try Skills Development Scotland’s (SDS) new Drones in Construction activity.

Motherwell railway station will temporarily be closing one of its taxi ranks and a bus stop as part of the construction of the new transport interchange in the town.

Teams working on the development of overhead electricity lines and a new substation near Alyth donated over £4500 for two local causes.

direct to your inboxRochdale council is to bring the job of fixing potholes and keeping roads in decent condition back ‘in house’.The authority is ditching contractor Balfour Beatty in a move it claims will give it more ‘control and flexibility’ over how it carries out the ‘vital service'The decision means the company will stop performing highways maintenance for the council when its contract ends in March next year.‘Key functions’ set to come back under direct control of the local authority include the following:The newsletter that brings Manchester's political news, investigations - and a bit of gossip - straight to youSign up to our Manchester Memo newsletter to keep abreast of the major political issues of the week – and a few of the

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.An investigation has been launched after a gas network firm claimed council contractors drilled a borehole close to a main pipeline in Dumbarton.Balfour Beatty, which carried out the works on behalf of West Dunbartonshire Council, said it is looking into the claims made, with a full probe underway.Gas network company SGN told the Lennox Herald the hole had been drilled in “close proximity” to their gas main.The hole was drilled in August on private land at Glenpath in Dumbarton, which the local authority says was part of ground investigation works for the Gruggies Burn Flood Prevention Scheme.However, the landowner, who allowed access to the land after

Work will get underway in the coming months on a £14.5 million redevelopment which will turn Motherwell Rail Station into an integrated regional transport hub.

Perth has now resumed following months of inactivity.Traffic-signal controlled plant crossings were put back along the Luncarty to Pass of Birnam stretch this week so construction crews could start shifting equipment, earth and materials around the site again.The first section of the new carriageway was opened to traffic in mid-February and main contractors Balfour Beatty are now focused on finishing a second section and realigning several junctions along the route.Businesses in region welcome easing of COVID-19 lockdown restrictionsIt is understood further temporary traffic signals will need to be installed along the road over the coming months so crews can safely remove parapet formwork from new bridges crossing the carriageway.A