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Comedian Ken Cheng wins ‘Dave’s Funniest Joke of The Fringe’ Award with one-liner about the new pound coin. (Image: UKTV) Hard currency has won out in the battle for this year's top joke title at the Edinburgh Festival.

Ken Barclay The external Barclay review group has today published their 130+ page report on non-domestic business rates, proposing 30 recommendations for the Scottish Government to consider including: measures to support economic growth; modernise the rates system; and increase fairness.

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.

Derek Mackay Scotland's public spending deficit has been cut to £13.3 billion over the past year, according to official Scottish government statistics released today.

An accountant jailed for embezzling £25,000 from an upmarket Renfrewshire golf club has been struck off.

American President Donald Trump’s luxury golf resort at Turnberry in Ayrshire has received a “mandatory” tax rebate.

Aberdeen-based residential leasing company, Stonehouse Lettings, part of the Lomond Capital group, has announced the purchase of the residential leasing business of prominent Aberdeen and North East legal firm Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace (RCCW).

Iain McGhee Iain McGhee, valuations partner at commercial property consultants Knight Frank analyses what the findings of yesterday's report mean for the industry

Anna Orr, marketing manager at Bellfield Brewery and brewer and business development manager Kieran Middleton toast the injection of fresh funds The UK’s first dedicated gluten-free microbrewery has achieved its fund raising target of £430,000 cash via equity to support its rapid expansion.

One fifth of Scots claim to already live in their dream home as planning applications for home improvements slow to their lowest ebb in five year growth to stand at just 3 per cent, new data has shown.

Stephen Boyle Scotland’s latest Quarterly National Accounts, announced today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician, show that during the first quarter of the year Scotland's onshore GDP grew by 0.7 per cent in real terms, based on 2014 weights.

Lloyds Banking Group has been compelled to paid back a £1000 penalty it slapped on a retired couple after they transfered their savings between two of its own subsidiaries just four days too early.

Royal Bank of Scotland has settled a legal case brought by a businessman who claimed the 73 per cent state-owned lender had sold him Libor-linked hedging products while simultaneously attempting to rig the benchmark rate.

Elaine Murray Edinburgh-based Faith Simpson Accountants (FSA) has announced plans to relocate its Huntly office to a new site in the town next month to cope with increasing demand in the region.

A former Dundee City Council IT officer specialising in financial IT systems has been sentenced to over 5 years imprisonment after admitting defrauding the authority to the tune of more than one million pounds.