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Scottish site gets £500k award to turn landfill into “greener” cement

A SCOTTISH facility for the production of lower carbon cement from landfill has been awarded £500,000 by Zero Waste Scotland. The new site near Lanark,...

Unclaimed ashes of dead Scots to be dumped in mass graves

THE unclaimed remains of thousands of dead Scots are to be scattered without permission into mass graves. The ashes of around 8,000 urns a year...

80 year-old loco steams to the rescue of stranded flyers

By Michael MacLeod and Cara Sulieman IT goes at a top speed of 75mph, takes 11 hours to reach London, and stops for an hour...

Edinburgh Airport flights grounded by ash cloud overhead

Staff at Edinburgh Airport faced a race against the clock to get as many flights as possible airborne today before being forced to close...

Volcanic ash leaves thousands stranded

By Cara Sulieman & Rory Reynolds THOUSANDS of passengers were stranded at Edinburgh Airport today (Thursday) as volcanic ash moved into Scottish airspace. Staff at the...

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