1+ hour, 50+ min ago   (888+ words) I didn’t realise you could study geology until I was in fifth year at school. I went to an open day at the University of Glasgow and saw a stall with rocks and a picture of a volcano. That caught…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (696+ words) Residents of a Clackmannanshire village affected by ground movement will receive UK Government support which could run into “tens of millions” of pounds, it has been announced. It comes after the Mining Remediation Authority confirmed the cause of recent ground…...

6+ mon, 12+ hour ago   (994+ words) Blasting at Fife Silica Sands quarry could be an 'ecological catastrophe' due to unstable ground caused by a severe 2002 flood at Longannet, according to a local resident. It's the view of Alan Morrison, who lives near the quarry that has…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (273+ words) An East Kilbride paper packaging manufacturer has been fined more than £400,000 after a worker was crushed by a 4.5 tonne machine. On Halloween 2023, Matthew King was struck on the head while working underneath the machine. The Multi Packaging Solutions UK employee…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (523+ words) A mineral collector has been convicted of damaging sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) by using a hammer to break rocks to collect rare minerals to sell, in the first conviction of its kind in Scotland. Dagmara Lesiow Lasczcewski was…...