Scotland

​The good news: The Loch Ness Monster has been captured on sonar. The bad news: "Nessie" is a prop from a Sherlock Holmes film that sank in the loch in 1969.

UK-based sustainable building firm build different recently completed work on an energy-efficient prefabricated home dubbed Schoolmasters. The house follows Passivhaus principles, draws most of its energy from renewable sources.

Two Scottish architectural students recently designed and built an observation point with a reflective facade in rural Scotland.The Lookout offers a quiet place from which to appreciate the natural beauty of the area.

As part of a plan to preserve and redevelop the former British Army camp, the decommissioned Cultybraggan Camp nuclear bunker is going under the hammer with bids starting at £200,000 (US$330,000)

Say you were the third generation of a sheep-farming family in the southwest of Scotland, and you intended to build a new farmhouse that made a statement about resource consumption. Well, you would, wouldn't you?

A Glaswegian professor has designed a line of nutritionally-balanced frozen pizzas, that reportedly taste good.

Taking in the sights of a foreign land by car isn't a new approach to tourism, but this variation on the theme provides an extra injection of speed - supercar speed.

An escalation in the use of the Eisbock method of beer production has seen man's favorite beverage suddenly become stronger than spirits such as whisky and vodka. The race is now on to break 50% alcohol by volume.

Great Britain's first amphibious bus service has hit a slight snag in testing - a component failure halting the Stagecoach Amphibious Bus in its third crossing of the river Clyde between Renfrew and Yoker in Scotland.

Scottish council, West Lothian (near Edinburgh), has given the green light to a local cab company to run a fleet of Toyota Prius vehicles.

Bonhams 2nd dedicated whisky auction in Edinburgh shows that "the water of life" could liven up your investment portfolio too.

The next generation of ‘smart’ solar-powered road markings which warn of bad weather or slow-moving traffic ahead and can help reduce motorway hold-ups, have proved a significant success on highways in the Netherlands.