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Ramsay Duff Glasgow-based investment house Maven Capital Partners has announced the completion of a £13.75m deal to buy an empty 6,000m2 office building in Cardiff city-centre for conversion into a 100-bedroom Hotel Indigo, the boutique brand of InterContinental Hotels Group.

A change to the Community (Scotland) Empowerment Bill agreed by the local government and regeneration committee last week encourages public bodies to promote and facilitate participation with people and communities in decision making and budget setting. The move follows huge participation in last ye

Fiona Weir is Tax Director at Johnston Carmicahael. The VAT law on prompt payment discounts changes with effect from 1st April 2015 and will significantly increase the compliance burden for both suppliers and customers.

George Osborne has delivered his sixth Budget as chancellor, and the last of the current Parliament. Below is a summary of the key points announced as compiled by Edinburgh-based accountants Chien + Tait:

Henderson Loggie has welcomed the UK Government’s decision to allow small companies and micro‑entities to opt out of publishing their profit and loss accounts on the public Companies House register from April 2028, a move the firm says validates the concerns it raised earlier this year about

SpaceX makes its long-awaited stock market debut today in what is expected to be the largest initial public offering in history.

Three residents of a condominium complex in downtown Denver are suing a gym they claim has made their homes unliveable because of groaning weightlifters. The lawsuit, filed in Denver County District Court, accuses Summit Strong gym of allowing “unreasonably loud weightlifting-related noises&rd

Competing in support of the ICAS Foundation at The London Marathon, outgoing ICAS president Karen Scholes CA and Foundation Alumni Ambassador Dean Scobie CA, have raised more than £30,000, with a final goal of reaching £35,000 to assist the next generation of accountancy professionals. M

An Italian national who attempted to defraud a Singapore watch retailer has been sentenced to seven months in prison, in a case that hinged on one extraordinary irony: the watch he believed to be counterfeit was entirely genuine. Singh Deepak, 24, had purchased a Rolex GMT Saru from an acquaintance

Northern Light Microscopy Limited (NLM), has raised more than £1 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed financing round to accelerate the commercialisation of a microscopy system to make advanced imaging more accessible. The investment, led by DSW Ventures with participation from Scottish Enter

Listing activity on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in the first quarter of 2026 was muted, with just two listings, according to EY-Parthenon’s latest IPO analysis. One listing raised £8.8 million on the main market, with the other raising £4m on the Alternative Investment Market (

Andy Gray shares financial planning guidance for professional footballers, urging them to prepare for career uncertainty, income volatility, and life after the game while their earning potential is at its peak. As the domestic football season moves into its final stretch, and contracts, transfers, a

VAT and indirect tax advisor (VITA) has accelerated its information and support campaign for the accountancy profession with a new initiative aimed at upskilling the sector and raising awareness of the complexities of one of the UK’s most important taxes. The Glasgow-based firm has launched a

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed it will proceed with an industry-wide redress scheme to compensate motorists who were mis-sold car finance, following a finding by the courts that lenders broke the law by failing to disclose key information to customers.

A Tesco supermarket in Kirkwall, Orkney, has been giving away thousands of bananas after an ordering error resulted in a delivery of 38,000 pieces of fruit – 380 boxes of approximately 100 bananas each. A spokesperson for the supermarket said that colleagues had been inviting local schools and