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A courthouse dramatically went into lockdown after suspicious packages on its doorstep were reported to police – which turned out to be from Taco Bell.

Investing Women Angels (IWA) has become the first Scottish angel group to achieve a Nasdaq exit following this week’s successful listing of TC Biopharm on the New York-based stock exchange. Motherwell-headquartered TC Biopharm, a clinical stage biotechnology company developing cell therapies i

Scottish salmon exports recovered to near-record figures in 2021, according to new figures released by the UK Government.

Flaws found in the way Scottish Canals recorded and valued its assets meant auditors could not give an opinion on its accounts, according to a new report published by Audit Scotland. Scottish Canals' status changed from a public corporation to a non-departmental public body in 2020/21. That cha

Charles Darwin stole his theory of evolution from a Scottish naturalist, a criminologist has said. Dr Mike Sutton says his research proves “overwhelming” similarities between On the Origin of Species and the work of Perthshire-raised Patrick Matthew.

The Resource Management Association Scotland (RMAS), the organisation representing Scotland’s SME resource and waste management sector has warned that plans to end the Red Diesel exemption for several industry sectors will further impact on the UK’s cost of living crisis. RMAS says the i

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to increased interest rates by 0.25% to 0.5%. The committee voted by a majority of 5-4 at a meeting yesterday.

In 2021, deals led by angel syndicate members of LINC Scotland secured in total £146 million funding for young companies with high growth potential, almost double the amount raised in 2020, and 70% higher than the record set in 2019. Before the pandemic struck, 2019 had been a high point in th

James McMillan, director at law firm Anderson Strathern, warns that Scotland has become an international hotspot for financial crime. In the UK context when you think about white-collar crime over the last couple of decades, names like Barings Bank, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCC

Dyneval, the Roslin-based biotechnology start-up, has secured more than £1.8 million of funding from investors as it expands its team and gears up to launch its first product at the start of 2022. The company has raised £1.29m of Series A equity investment through a collaborative funding

Digital bank Monument has announced that the Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority have lifted deposit restrictions on its licence, so it can now operate as a fully-licensed deposit taking bank. Monument is the first neo-bank to be launched in the UK specifically to me

Female-founded, equity-backed businesses across the UK have now closed the gender funding gap in GreenTech, according to a new report from the Female Founders Forum, a partnership by think tank The Entrepreneurs Network and Barclays. As global and business leaders gather in Glasgow for COP26, the re

Kelvin Capital has said it expects to triple its annual investment volume this year after putting £28.4 million into eight businesses in the first three quarters. The Glasgow-based syndicate has secured around £60 million for its portfolio companies in the last four years.

Cryptocurrency scammers made off with more than £1.5 million after duping investors into buying a fake currency named after hit Netflix show Squid Game.

A judge who was caught playing cards during a remote court hearing in a case worth nearly €100,000 has apologised. Madam Justice Jolaine Antonio, a judge of the Alberta Court of Appeal in Canada, admitted in a letter that there was "no excuse for causing litigants and their counsel to feel unhe