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The Scottish economy grew by 0.1 per cent during the second quarter of 2017, below the UK rate of 0.3 per cent, according to statistics announced today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician.

Iain Fraser Iain Fraser and Tom MacLennan, partners with FRP Advisory LLP, have been appointed after Aberdeen-based Xtreme Business Solutions Limited, a specialist supplier of cabling infrastructure and networked wireless systems and services, such as CCTV, was placed into administration.

Mark Houston Scots accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael has leased an extra floor at its Glasgow premises following a period of rapid growth in the Central Belt.

A Scottish cemetery worker who admitted to illegally and callously selling non-existent burial plots in a "very unusual" scam has been jailed for 16 months.

Almost 60 businesses in the Scottish Borders are expecting to increase their turnover by at least £100,000 over the next three years after receiving support from Scottish Enterprise's Business Gateway service.

Nicola Standen Nicola Standen, manager and adviser in the Personal Debt team at Campbell Dallas considers the Debt Arrangement Scheme (DAS) as an effective debt management solution.

Matt Roberts Royal Bank of Scotland has provided Cambuslang-based fitness club, Fit4Less, with a £170,500 funding package to help with start-up costs and to fit out its new premises.

A police inspector who was jailed for fraud has been told he will have to repay more than £100,000.

Iain Fraser North-East gym business, Aden Morgan Summers Limited, which trades as Millennium Leisure, has been placed in administration with Iain Fraser and Tom MacLennan, partners with FRP Advisory LLP, appointed as joint administrators.

Christine Scott The Scottish Government has the power to stop charities building up unaffordable pension liabilities in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland has told Holyrood leaders.

Moira Kelly Tax professionals have welcomed another strong performance from the body charged with administering and collecting Scotland’s devolved taxes but cautioned that the numbers are likely to fuel further concerns over the Scottish Government’s flagship Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (

Claire MarwickEdinburgh investment house Martin Currie has hailed the success of the FUTURE AS5ET, a one day conference held at the capital’s International Conference Centre aimed at secondary school fifth year girls from across Scotland to promote the fact that gender should never be seen as a ba

Following this week’s news that the Financial Reporting Council has cleared KPMG of any wrongdoing over the audit it carried out of HBOS immediately prior to the bank’s collapse, the accountancy watchdog's impartiality has come under scrutiny after it was highlighted that 11 of the ‘Big Four�

Adrian Innes (left) is welcomed by and LendingCrowd founder Stuart Lunn Edinburgh-based alternative finance provider to SMEs, LendingCrowd, says it has topped 200 cumulative loan deals in August and posted a record month for the P2P lender with around £2.5 million of funds inflow and four Scottish

Liz Cameron, Chief Executive, Scottish Chambers of Commerce, Tim Allan, President, Scottish Chambers of Commerce and Liu Xiaoming, China’s Ambassador to the UK Scotland’s business-to-business links with China have reached a “turning point” thanks to pro-active private-sector leadership, the