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As many as 2,000 jobs could be lost at Edinburgh Council as the authority considers a number of proposals to address a £126 million budget shortfall over the next four years. A report to the council’s finance and resources committee on Thursday will propose cost-saving actions such as encouraging

Businesses can suffer serious loss if insurance companies delay paying claims. But under Law Commission reforms introduced into Parliament yesterday, insurers will now be obliged to make prompt payment or face a claim for damages.

Harvey Wheaton CodeClan, Scotland’s first digital software skills academy, today announced the appointment of Harvey Wheaton, as its first chief executive officer.

A bungling knife-wielding would-be bank robber has been branded “ridiculous” by his own lawyer after a court heard how he had ordered a cashier to pay money directly into his own account. Paul Neaverson, 61, who has no previous convictions, went into a high street branch of NatWest in Rainham, K

A Chinese court ruling in favour of Scotch Whisky against a packaging firm in the Anhui province of the country is being heralded as a legal breakthrough and a warning to other potential counterfeiters.

Scottish staff of the Lidl supermarket chain are to receive the ‘living wage’. The move means Lidl will become the first UK supermarket to implement the minimum wage as recommended by the Living Wage Foundation.

A severe shortage of skilled workers and a “slow planning system” are hindering efforts to tackle the housing crisis in Scotland, according to a new research. A report from Lloyds Bank into the state of the UK housebuilding industry found real concern over the effect of the sector’s skills sho

Almost 40 per cent of first time buyers expect to take over three years to save a deposit for their first home, according to a new study. Annual First Time Buyers Research from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks found that the largest percentage (46 per cent) anticipated taking between one and three yea

Scottish recruitment consultancies recorded a further rise in staff placements in August with Dundee leading the way, though the latest increase in permanent appointments was the slowest in four months, according to the latest Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs. Aberdeen was the worst performer in Scot

Ernst & Young has announced that it will remove the degree classification from its entry criteria, saying there is "no evidence" success at university correlates with achievement in later life. The global accountancy firm, which is one of the UK's biggest graduate recruiters, is scrapping its po

Gordon MacDonald New figures have revealed that Scotland has the lowest proportion of workers paid below the Living Wage of any nation in the UK and lower than any region in England outside of London and the South East.

A trio of Scottish fraudsters have been jailed for total of nine and a half years as a result of prosecutions in the Scotland’s first ever ‘cuckoo smurfing’ fraud case. Muhammed Zeeshan Abdul Hameed, Shahid Aslam,and Saleem Mohammed Shikari, have been sentenced to a total of nine and a half ye

Cat MacLean New scheme aims to persuade Insolvency Practitioners to pursue claims for a company in liquidation or administration, against banks.

As the wedding season draws to a close, new research has revealed that adults in Edinburgh spend more than any other UK city when attending a wedding. The survey of 1,536 adults by One4all, the Post Office gift card, found Edinburgh residents spend on average £297 on attending a wedding, splashing

American defence and aerospace firm Lockheed Martin has announced plans to create 327 new jobs at its new office in the Finnieston area of Glasgow.