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From today the spending limit for contactless card payments has increased from £30 to £45 across the country, UK Finance has announced.

A teenager from Stoke has won £240,000 on a scratchcard but cannot spend his winnings because of the UK coronavirus lockdown measures.  

ASCO, the global integrated materials and logistics management company, has appointed Gary Paver as its new group chief financial officer. A seasoned finance executive, Mr Paver is a chartered accountant with over 25 years' experience in North Sea oil and gas including roles with Halliburton, Petrol

Many Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Scotland will be at the forefront of the local response to the COVID-19 outbreak through a £1 million resilience fund made available by the Aileen Campbell, cabinet secretary for communities and local government. Business Improvement Districts are

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has called for rating appeals to be lodged and ideally to be backdated to 4 March 2020 as a result of a material change of circumstances arising from the coronavirus pandemic. The firm is currently working flat out lodging new appeals against rating assessments on the ba

Gilson Gray has accelerated its recent expansion into Dundee by merging with local property firm, Wallace and Co Property Management. The addition of Wallace and Co Property Management will see the transfer of local property experts Elaine Wallace, Pauline Traill and Derek Tyson to the Gilson Gray P

Hammerson, the retail property company which owns Aberdeen's Union Square and Glasgow's Silverburn, has seen a major slump in rents, as two-thirds of the rent it expected to collect last week was not sent due to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

The UK's biggest rent-to-own company, BrightHouse, has collapsed, with Grant Thornton appointed as administrators. Chris Laverty, Trevor O’Sullivan and Helen Dale have been appointed as joint administrators of the firm. 

Black Isle Brewery has warned that the coronavirus crisis could be "disastrous" for the brewing industry in Scotland, after the company reported a 95% decrease in sales.

Supermarkets in the UK are to benefit from a £3 billion tax break whilst sales skyrocket due to the coronavirus lockdown, according to Tax Watch UK.

Loganair is preparing to ask for a government bailout to sustain its business in the next few days.

The Bank of England’s (BoE) decision to lower interest rates to an all-time low of 0.1% could see UK savers' rate of return fall by as much as 62.5%, according to the latest research by peer-to-peer lending platform Sourced Capital. 

The UK economy stagnated in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The Scottish Government has pledged £25m worth of funding to third sector organisations across Scotland through the newly created Third Sector Resilience Fund (TSRF).

A thief raiding a parked car was foiled after the vehicle's owner used a remote key to trap him until police arrived.