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Euromillions winner Colin Weir has bought the majority share (55%) of Partick Thistle FC through his Three Black Cats (TBC) company, with the intention of eventually gifting those shares to fans. Mr Weir bought the majority share in the club after he won £161m on the Euromillions. He completed

The UK’s social investment market is now worth over £3.5 billion, according to new research conducted for Big Society Capital. The company said there had been “phenomenal” growth in the sector since 2015, with market value increasing by at least 30% annually over the past thr

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is warning millions of Self Assessment customers to be aware of fraudsters in the run-up to the 31 January deadline. Over the last year, HMRC received nearly 900,000 reports from the public about suspicious HMRC contact - phone calls, texts or emails. More than 100,000

Partners at EY are due to take a pay cut, despite the business making record revenues. The Times reports that the 702 partners at EY received an average of £679,000 in the year to the end of June, a decrease of 2% on the previous year's pay of £693,000.

The value of Scotland’s property market is on course to top £18 billion for the second consecutive year – despite rising homeowner anxiety over Brexit, according to new figures from Aberdein Considine. The firm’s Property Monitor report found that sales hit £5.3bn durin

Willie Watt has been appointed as the first chair of the board of the Scottish National Investment Bank. Willie Watt was CEO of Martin Currie, an international public equities investment firm based in Edinburgh, between 2001 and February of 2019, and will step down as chairman of the firm in Decembe

AB13 in Aberdeen and EH18 in Lasswade near Edinburgh have neither a local post office or any cash machines, according to a new analysis from Which?

Holyrood’s finance and constitution committee has set out potential structural issues and the risk of ‘unintended consequences’ within the Fiscal Framework – the mechanism method by which partly determines Scotland’s budget. In its pre-budget report published today, the

Barclays is offering free in-branch puppy session to soothe stressed students.

City Property has completed a series of three complex funding arrangements totalling £646 million having been advised by the banking & finance team at law firm Harper Macleod. City Property is ultimately controlled by Glasgow City Council, which required the funding to meet its obligations

Edinburgh-based CCTV specialist Indigovision has purchased Portuguese security software firm Agorasys SA for €2,300,000. Based in Lisbon, Portugal, Agora was a spin-out from Instituto Superior Tecnico, part of the University of Lisbon.

Following the announcement made by the Living Wage Foundation that the real living wage in the UK and London has increased, Jenny Stewart, head of infrastructure, government and healthcare at KPMG discusses what increasing the real Living Wage means for Scottish workers. Today, the real Living Wage

Glasgow boasted the highest levels of city centre take-up of any of the UK's major regional office occupier markets in the third quarter of 2019, according to a new report. Commercial real estate services firm Avison Young today published its latest research on regional office activity across the "B

A husband and wife property investor team are set to breathe new life into a tired block of flats in Aberdeen, thanks to a £437,500 cash injection from Together. Dr Mohammad Namavar and Dr Elahe Radmaneshfar plan to turn 17 serviced apartments into modern rental homes thanks to Together,

While uncertainty about the exact timing of Brexit looks set to linger on into 2020, chartered accountant Wylie & Bisset is advising Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to prepare for change now by applying for a Brexit Support Grant. Funded by the Scottish Government, the Brexit Support G