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Nearly 60 Scottish jobs have been lost following the collapse and sale of the Ed’s Easy Diner retro American restaurant chain, the company’s administrators KPMG have announced.

Chris Stewart Cabinet Secretary for the Economy Keith Brown and one of Scotland’s leading property developers, Chris Stewart, have co-chaired the inaugural Scottish Real Estate Forum, established to underline the status of the property sector as a key economic driver.

House prices in Scotland have fallen for the second quarter in a row, latest figures have revealed.

Financial fraud in the first half of 2016 increased by a quarter to almost £400 million, enabled by scams and online attacks, new figures published today by Financial Fraud Action (FFA) show.

Johnston Carmichael has been appointed as provisional liquidators of Ayrshire-based Lamar Group Ltd, which supplied base materials and consumable products to the UK printed circuit board industry.

Alistair Duncan joins the Indirect Tax team at AAB. Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB), one of Scotland’s largest independent firms of Chartered Accountants, has announced the appointment of Alistair Duncan as its new director of indirect tax.

Edinburgh-based banking giant and owner of Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group, has confirmed that it is to cut 1,230 jobs as part of its continuing strategic restructuring drive.

Glenn Allison Stewart Milne Group has secured a £185 million banking facility to pursue its long-term strategy of focussed growth and geographical expansion.

While the wheels may to be coming off of Donald Trump's tilt for the White House it seems he will not be able to find any better news on this side of the Atlantic with his Scottish golf courses suffering loses of more than £9 million last year.

Edinburgh-based global asset manager Standard Life Investments has announced the appointment of a new team and CEO in Singapore, marking a significant step in the company’s global growth strategy and commitment to Asia Pacific.

Keith Brown Latest official figures published today have shown the Scottish economy grew by 0.4 per cent in the second quarter of 2016.

Abolishing rates help for smaller Scottish firms would result in thousands of cancelled investments and business closures, according to the Federation of Small Businesses’ (FSB).

Home-owners borrowed £12.2bn for house purchase in August, up 14 per cent month-on-month and 11 per cent year-on-year.

Scott Barrie (2014 Scholar and currently on Edrington graduate programme), Nadia Fraser (2014 Scholar and currently on Edrington graduate programme), Scott McCroskie (Managing Director McCallan whisky) and Alice Leyshon (2012 Scholar and Assistant Brand Manager Cutty Sark) Entrepreneurial Scotlandâ€

A dip in confidence has been recorded among Scottish manufacturers with almost one in four (23 per cent) blaming uncertainty following the EU vote and nearly one in three (30 per cent) citing global economic concerns as the main barrier to growth.