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Neil Woodford has broken his silence on the collapse of Woodford Investment Management and revealed he plans to start all over again in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph. Speaking publicly for the first time since his business collapsed in October 2019, exclusively to The Sunday Telegraph, Mr W

Michelle Maddox, the owner of the world’s only clootie dumpling shop, Clootie McToot, has secured her dream retail deal in which her products will be sold by John Lewis. In a blog post written last year, Ms Maddox listed her three dream retailers for her products, those being Fortnum & Mas

St Andrews-based investment firm Eos Advisory has entered into a strategic partnership with US-based Kineticos Life Sciences to co-invest in early stage Scottish life sciences companies. The venture partnership aims to invest over £10 million over the next five years in oncology-focused life s

MHA Henderson Loggie has appointed Dawn MacDougall as tax director. She joins from EY where latterly she was head of tax in their Inverness office and focused on supporting owner-managed businesses and entrepreneurs throughout the UK, with complex tax issues.

Businesses across Scotland are to benefit from a £1 million funding boost from The Data Lab, Scotland’s Innovation Centre for data and AI. The Data lab has announced two new funding schemes – Data Skills for Work, and an SME data internship grant – to support further bus

Accountancy firm Azets has promoted four Scottish partners, Chris Horne, Peter Gallanagh, Greig McKnight and Bernadette Higgins into senior management roles across the international and UK business. Chris Horne has been appointed deputy chief executive officer and will support chief executive office

Wholesums, launched last year by the Taylor family behind Mackie's Crisps, has invested £750,000 in a new production facility in Errol, Perthshire to produce a healthy vegetable chip. Wholesums is made thanks to an innovative slow baking process that – unlike other “popped snacks&r

Scottish construction chiefs are calling for the Treasury to change VAT reforms which they argue could cripple them further and cause massive job cuts.

Demand for detached houses in the UK has boomed during the coronavirus pandemic, pushing prices three times faster than for flats, according to new figures released by Halifax.

NatWest Group has launched a joint offering with green energy tech company Octopus Energy to help people and businesses go green, demonstrating the bank’s commitment to playing an active role in tackling climate change as part of its purpose-led strategy. The package is available to NatWest Gr

A drawing by Vincent Van Gogh is expected to fetch up to £7 million at an upcoming auction.

Bereaved families dealing with banks to settle the finances of loved ones have suffered “unacceptable” delays and administrative errors throughout the coronavirus pandemic, according to research carried out by consumer body Which?.

Independent accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has appointed Erin Davis as its new head of international corporate tax, strengthening its tax team. Tax director Erin Davis joined the firm in 2019 with over 18 years’ experience in international, corporate, M&A and pe

More than half of the UK’s largest cities are continuing to experience a property selling boom, according to UK-wide letting firm Apropos. The firm has analysed year-on-year data and found that the number of properties advertised for sale has risen by between 1% and 67% year on year in 11 of t

Rachel Henry considers the importance of words and their meaning in insurance contracts. Words matter. The meaning of words and the way they are interpreted matter. The wording used in insurance contracts can be crucial to the outcome of legal cases, as we saw on 8 February 2021 when the United King