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A Scottish charity has become the second largest shareholder in a Scottish Premiership football team after being gifted over half a million pounds worth of shares. The Highland Hospice, which provides palliative care for people throughout the Highlands, has been given a 19 per cent stake in Invernes

Moray Council could become the first Scottish local authority to break the eight year council tax freeze. None of Scotland’s 32 councils have increased tax since the Scottish Governmentintroduced a freeze in 2007.

Luke Robertson A 30-year-old financial worker from Stonehaven is about to become the first Scot and youngest Brit to reach the South Pole in a solo, unsupported and unassisted expedition –only two years after surviving a brain tumour.

Nicola Sturgeon A final deal on the fiscal framework accompanying the Scotland Bill has to be in place by February, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has agreed with Prime Minister David Cameron at a meeting in Downing Street yesterday.

Nora Senior Speaking at the Scottish Chambers of Commerce’s 23rd Annual Business Address last night, chairman Nora Senior called for action after revealing that just 100 companies are currently responsible for more than 60 per cent of Scottish exports.

Royal Bank of Scotland, along with Standard Chartered, has emerged as the weakest of Britain's seven largest lenders following a Bank of England stress test. It is the second time the central bank carried out its annual test of the UK's biggest lenders in order to gauge their resilience in the face

Luke Davis Senior financial services leaders say the key to staff retention in a tight jobs market will be a rewarding career path rather than increased salaries or bonuses, according to new research1 from leading recruitment specialist Robert Half Financial Services.

Scotland's public spending watchdog has found no evidence of fraud or corruption in Celtic's purchase of land for their Lennoxtown training complex. However, the investigation by Audit Scotland did raise a series of weaknesses in the financial monitoring arrangements by the various public bodies inv

The House of Lords has called on the Prime Minister to halt the Scotland Bill amid fears the process is being undertaken with “undue haste” and without an assessment of the political and economic consequences for the UK. In its report A fracturing Union? The Economic Affairs Committee said there

Mark McCluskey Scottish companies may face serious tax and accounting implications for their businesses if they do not act immediately to implement the new FRS102 accounting standard, according to accountants BDO LLP.

Scots are likely to spend upwards of £20 million on Christmas jumpers this year, according to new research. Love Your Clothes, an organisation that “aims to raise awareness of the value of clothes” claims that nearly a third of Scots, despite admitting to owning at least one Christmas jumper al

Crickhowell Business in a small Welsh town people are joining forces to use the same accountancy loopholes used by huge multinationals to avoid the taxman as part of a BBC experiment.

British retailing giants have warned stores could be forced to shed jobs in Scotland unless business rates are overhauled. Boots, Marks & Spencer and John Lewis are among more than 40 firms and business organisations that have called on the Scottish Government to reform non-domestic business rat

Aberdeen Asset Management, Standard Chartered’s second largest shareholder, has said it will back the bank’s $5.1billion (£3.2bn) rights issue. Shares in Standard Chartered fell sharply yesterday after the Asia-focused UK bank said it would raise $5.1bn (£3.3bn) and cut 15,000 jobs by 2018.

Publicly funded economic development agency Scottish Enterprise is to impose severe wage cuts of about 10 per cent on thirty of its staff just weeks after the majority of workers, and highly paid directors scooped above-inflation pay rises. Several senior members of Scottish Enterprise’s leadershi