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Nicola Sturgeon and Michael Russell Michael Russell, who has previously held the environment, culture and education briefs in the Scottish Government, has been appointed as Scotland’s new minister with responsibility for Brexit negotiations with the UK government.

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Funds coming to Scotland from the UK Government’s apprenticeship levy should be spent on vocational skills academies, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

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Immigration lawyers have said European migrants are rushing to the UK before the UK government begins the process of leaving the EU, The Brief reports. Following the publication of quarterly figures on migration to the UK from the Office of National Statistics, lawyers have said the government's pla

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The director of an Edinburgh construction company, who lied about her business expenses in a VAT fraud, has been jailed for two years after an investigation into her company’s finances by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

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Agencies dealing in the creation, selling and hosting of controversial Scottish Limited Partnerships or ‘shell firms’ based in Scotland are turning over at least £25 million every year, it has emerged. SLPs exploit a loophole in century-old Scottish company law which critics claim are increasin

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A Scottish businessman who ran up debts through gambling and transferred cash prior to filing for bankruptcy has been handed an eight-year Bankruptcy Restriction Order (BRO).

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Barclays has announced the latest step in its strategy to reduce its non-core business in order to focus on its UK and US banking operations with the sale of its risk analytics and index unit to Bloomberg in a £615 million deal. The banking giant said it would make a pre-tax gain of about £535 mil

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