Demolition of fire-ravaged building at Glasgow Central begins
A huge blaze that engulfed a B-listed Victorian building in the centre of Glasgow on Sunday evening has left Scotland’s busiest railway station shut down for days and destroyed dozens of businesses. The fire started in a vape shop on Union Street at about 15:45 on Sunday, with firefighters being called soon afterwards. The blaze later engulfed the entire building which occupied the corner of Union Street and Gordon Street, next to Glasgow Central Station, causing it to partially collapse. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said six crews were initially sent to the four-floor building. Videos posted on X show smoke billowing out of a ground-floor vape shop next to a side entrance to the railway station.
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Collapsed contractor chasing Persimmon for £2.5m
Administrators for a Devon contractor that collapsed after major clients withheld payment for completed work are pursuing housebuilder Persimmon for £2.5m. Roadform Civil Engineering, a groundworks and civils contractor, called in administrators from Kirks in January. In a report published at Companies House this week, administrators said: “The company started to encounter difficulties during the financial year ending 31 October 2025.
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Use facts to protect neurodivergent workers
As Neurodiversity Week (16–20 March) approaches, IOSH’s Laura Wilding reflects on recent progress in creating more inclusive workplaces for neurodivergent colleagues and highlights where further support is still needed. Understanding neurodiversity within the workplace has been an increasingly common theme in recent years. This has contributed to negative attention and misinformation, which can mislead organisations. While confrontational headlines grab attentionref 1, ref 2, millions of neurodivergent people are quietly finding and maintaining careers – but not without challenges. Neurodivergent workers in the right jobs are no less able than their neurotypical peers and add valuable perspectives to organisations. The risks they face and the ways these can be controlled, however, may differ.
Home workers must be protected like any other employee
Over a third of workers in Great Britain now work remotely or in hybrid arrangements, but not all employers realise health and safety responsibilities apply equally at home as in the workplace.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Britain’s national workplace regulator, is reminding employers of the need to assess the risks for all home workers.
Home and hybrid working is now found across almost every sector and business size. Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that in January 2026, 38 percent of workers in Great Britain were working remotely or in some kind of hybrid arrangement (25% hybrid and 13% working fully remotely).
Read more about the incident on the HSE website.
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