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Ross Gardner with David Rennie at Stronachs’ Aberdeen HQ Stronachs LLP has strengthened its corporate team with the appointment of Ross Gardner as partner.

The DVLA have clamped or towed almost 100,000 cars in the past year because motorist have not paid their road tax through the new ‘no-disc’ system. The increased marked a 58 per cent rise on the previous year.

Royal Bank of Scotland has said it is scrapping sales bonuses for staff working at the 73 per cent taxpayer-owned lender’s retail banks. To compensate, the roughly 20,000 staff selling products such mortgages, credit cards and loans to individuals and businesses will get an average 5 per cent pay

Hometrack’s UK Cities House Price Index has recorded annual house price growth of 9.4 per cent per annum, and looks set to reach 10 per cent by the year end. Glasgow (up 8.3 per cent), Manchester (up 7 per cent) and Liverpool (up 5.1 per cent) are registering the highest rates of annual house pric

Food bank use in Scotland has increased to record levels, with more than 60,000 referrals over a six-month period, according to the Trussell Trust which said on average people needed 1.7 referrals, suggesting 35,000 individuals received help. From April to September its food banks gave out 60,458 th

Scotland’s high street stores have reported a disappointing October, according to figures from the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC). While total sales across the UK were up by 0.9 per cent on the previous year, figures for Scotland showed a drop of 2.4 per cent.

The Government-backed National Savings and Investments (NS&I) is to reduce the rate paid on its Direct ISA from 1.5 per cent to 1.25 per cent in a move that will affect about 400,000 savers UK-wide. The move will be a blow to Scottish savers and likely exert additional pressure on many elderly p

Edinburgh-based R&D tax credit specialist, Jumpstart, has welcomed new moves by HMRC to simplify and improve access to research and development (R&D) tax relief for small businesses. The company has been at the forefront of raising awareness of the vital government scheme and the beneficial

Amanda McMillan Scotland’s busiest airports have continued their record growth, according to latest figures.

A crowdfunding platform has sourced £843,100 from 308 investors in a block of flats in just ten minutes and 43 seconds.

Rents have soared by more than a third in some parts of Scotland over the past five years, according to new figures. Official statistics show the average monthly rent for a two-bedroom property in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire rose by 36 per cent between 2010 and 2015.

Colin McLean, the co-founder of Edinburgh-based SVM Asset Management, has spoken out against the rewarding of failure within the industry. Reacting to the latest PwC survey of FTSE 100 Executive Pay, Mr McLean said the UK’s big companies and their shareholders have done little to address “length

Private sector activity in Scotland returned to expansionary territory in October with incoming new business stabilising after a fall in September. New data supplied by the latest Bank of Scotland PMI showed numbers expanded further and backlogs of work declined, while incomplete business continued

Wealthy foreign real estate investors shying away from the ballooning costs in London are sinking almost £1.4 billion a year into Scotland. With many property experts believing London is nearing a property bubble, property group JLL say Scottish real estate has received the highest amount of non-do

There were 361,345 private sector businesses operating in Scotland as at March 2015 - the highest figure since the time series began in 2000. According to Scotland’s Chief Statistician, between March 2014 and March 2015, the estimated number of businesses increased by 26,090 - representing a rise