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ESPC has reported a 128% increase in the volume of properties sold in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders over the last three months compared to last year. Looking further back and comparing to February to April 2019, the volume of property sales in the area was up 35.95%, further highligh

Shirley McIntosh, RSM’s head of tax in Scotland, details the importance of tax during an election campaign. Five years ago tax was a hot topic in the Scottish Parliamentary election. How the newly devolved tax powers would be used to deliver policy was part of every party’s manifesto. Bu

The £10,000 earnings threshold for automatically being placed in a workplace pension should be abandoned, according to Scottish Widows. The pensions giant has urged that many workers earning less than £10,000 and even some employers, are not aware that employees can choose to opt into th

Virgin Money, the owner of Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank, has reported pre-tax profits of £72 million for the first quarter of this year, despite the economic upheaval of COVID-19.

A consortium of research partners in Scotland has been awarded a £250,000 funding package to revolutionise the collection, interpretation, and use of data on fish farms, with the development of a new digital platform that will enable actionable insights. Led by R3-IoT, the Glasgow-based satell

A series of recent tender wins by its external and internal audit teams has prompted chartered accountants Wylie & Bisset to boost this year’s annual graduate intake. While the firm took on three graduates last year, this summer will see another eight – five who will follow the Insti

A Starbucks franchise business has opened a new drive-thru and café in Glasgow, adding to its growing portfolio of locations throughout Scotland, thanks to funding from HSBC UK. Glasgow-based OCO Westend, one of Starbucks’ longest licensed partners in the UK, opened its new store in Pol

Edinburgh-based Par Equity has led an investment of £2 million in Datactics, a leader in the field of data management. Belfast-based Datactics provides software and services to large organisations that need to improve and control the quality of the data held in their computer systems. The AI-e

Scotland’s construction-led economic recovery is threatened by a combination of sharply rising prices, disrupted supply chains and a chronic shortage of labour as the consequences of a no-deal Brexit coupled with the impact of the Covid pandemic.

Heavy metal band Twisted Sister has won a payout of nearly €1 million after an Australian politician ripped off the lyrics to We're Not Gonna Take It for his election campaign.

Scotland’s GDP is now estimated to have grown by 2.3% during the final quarter of 2020, according to statistics announced today by Scotland's Chief Statistician.

Scottish entrepreneurs Lee Fitzpatrick and Jake Murray have joined forces to create Hink, a digital enterprise with a difference. Funded with the support of the DigitalBoost Development Grant, Hink is on a mission to help businesses solve real problems, in a post-pandemic era, using the power of cre

The Aberdeen Latin American Income Fund Limited, a company managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), has announced its half year results for the six months to 28 February 2021 revealing a 7.2% in net asset value (NAV) total return. The increase in NAV compares favourably with the company&rsquo

Scotland faces being left behind in the COVID-19 economic recovery compared with England if the incoming Scottish Government is allowed to continue with a two-tier system to emerge in the summer, according to the Scottish Hospitality Group (SHG).

Acting on the instructions of the joint administrators for Pioneer Mutual Credit Union, Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has brought the former Credit Union property in Barrhead to the market for sale.