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Charlie Jeffery Edinburgh University has announced that it is to do a dramatic u-turn and fully divest from three of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers within the next six months.

Two brothers have taken house building into their own hands after high summer tourist rent prices forced them out of their home in Cornwall.

Martin Gilbert Martin Gilbert, chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management has submitted plans for the first phase of housing at a former Angus prison.

Glasgow Sheriff Court An assistant manager who worked in the trust department of accountancy firm Grant Thornton has been jailed for 40 months for embezzling £726,000 from trusts that were set up to help charities.

Martin Gilbert Aberdeen Asset Management has bought £4.1bn US private equity and real assets manager Flag Capital Management in a move the firm said will improve its hedge fund, property, private markets, infrastructure and pan-alternative offerings.

Under the new plans outlined in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Scottish Parliament is to receive new devolved powers to raise 40 per cent of taxes and decide about 60 per cent of public spending north of the border. The powers described in the proposed Scotland Bill, which was included in the s

Tim Bunker A new report has revealed the highest business rate paid on any individual property in Scotland.

Average Scottish rents recorded in April increased by 1.6 per cent in a year, according to Your Move’s latest Scottish Rental Index. This is the fastest year-on-year increase in rents since November 2014 when the annual change stood at 2.2 per cent, the data shows.

Lending to first-time buyers in Scotland was down in both value and volume, according to the latest data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). In the first quarter of 2015 first-time buyers took out 5,400 loans, 23 per cent down on the fourth quarter of 2014. These were worth £580 million, do

Scotland’s food exports brought in a record £1.1billion in 2014 on the back of surging fish and seafood sales. Latest figures from HMRC revealed that total food and drink exports were valued at £5.1 billion last year.

Rod Ashley Airdrie Savings Bank, the UK's last independent savings bank, is to close four of its Lanarkshire branches with the loss of 20 jobs.

David Nicol Wealth manager Brewin Dolphin has reported a strong first-half performance on the back of an “overall upward trend in investment markets” and sell-offs.

Dundee energy contractor Sustainable Energy Scotland (SES) has called in administrators after mounting debt and market volatility. Managing director Callum Milne told The Courier that the voluntary step to bring in Begbies Traynor, which has resulted in the loss of 40 jobs, had been taken with “re

Vaughan Hart A ‘decoupling’ of output and jobs in the Scottish construction sector could threaten the long-term sustainability of the industry’s recovery, industry body the Scottish Building Federation (SBF) has warned.

A London man has been left in shock after he was hit with a huge bill of more than £200,000 for just six bottles of fancy beer. The 28-year-old was accidentally charged £223,000 for six American Craft beers at a trendy North London off license instead of the £22.30 that he actually owed.