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UK consumers are relying increasingly on plastic with figures for the spring and early summer showing a rise in the use of credit, debit and charge cards.

The average price of a house in Scotland has increased by 22 per cent over the last five years, according to latest data from Lloyds Banking Group.

The Crown Office has launched a bid to claw back £160,00 under Proceeds of Crime legislation from a Perthshire potato merchant who conned the taxman out of £160,000 to fund private school fees for his children.

John Douglas, the 21st Earl of Morton, who died last year at his Dalmahoy estate near Edinburgh, left an £11 million fortune to his family, it has emerged.

Martin Gill The continuing recovery of the manufacturing sector is set to return business output to growth, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO.

Mark Carney The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has voted 6-2 to keep interest rates on hold at 0.25 per cent.

Beggars and rough sleepers in Glasgow city centre are damaging trade and putting shoppers off visiting the city, according to a leading Scottish business figure.

The average house price in Edinburgh on a square metre basis his tripled in 20 years to reach £2,492, the most expensive in Scotland.

Ross McEwan The Royal Bank of Scotland today confirmed that it has convinced the European Union of the merits of its plan to inject £835 million into boosting competition in the banking industry as an alternative to having to sell-off its tranche of Williams & Glyn branches.

Stan Russell High transfer values for final salary schemes are piling the pressure on advisers as insistent clients disagree with their recommendations, according to new research from Prudential.

Simon Capaldi Scotland’s industrial property market has built on a solid couple of years with a very strong start to 2017, according to new research from Knight Frank.

Latest figures published by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has revealed that the sector thwarted £25 million worth of fraudulent claims a week in 2016.

Frank Morton Aberdeen-based independent financial planning firm Anderson Anderson & Brown Wealth Ltd (AAB Wealth) has doubled its Assets Under Management over the last twelve months.

Victoria Nixon SafeDeposits Scotland is celebrating its achievement of a a record £80 million in tenancy deposits as it approaches the five-year anniversary of taking its first deposit.

Patrick Mill Alliance Trust Savings has increased its assets under administration (AUA) to more than £15 billion.