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Martin Gill Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has continued its record of sustainable and profitable growth, announcing an increase in revenues and double digit profit growth in its UK annual results published today.

Lloyds Banking Group is to close a further 49 branches throughout the UK in a move that will see nearly a dozen across Scotland shut their doors.

Two postcodes in Edinburgh and Glasgow have been named in the top three locations for house price growth over the past year in Barclay’s first ever Postcode Property Index.

Paul Atkinson(Image: Phil Wilkinson) Recruitment and investment entrepreneur Paul Atkinson has been awarded ‘Scotland’s Most Inspiring Leader’ Awards at the WeDO Scotland Awards, held over the weekend in Edinburgh’s Sheraton Hotel.

The chair of the Treasury Committee has written to the chairman of the UK’s Link ATM network to seek assurances over the future accessibility of free-to-use ATMs.

Jobs typically associated with London and ‘the City’, are now widely recognised as a vital part of the Scottish economy, according to new research by TheCityUK.

180 St Vincent Street (Image: Ryden) Accountants and business advisor Alexander Sloan has relocated its Glasgow office at Cadogan Street to the seventh floor of 180 St Vincent Street.

Tim Cooper The percentage of Scottish companies which report that they are benefiting from at least one sign of growth may have taken a tumble in recent months, according to new research by insolvency and restructuring trade body R3.

Investment to increase broadband speeds for key public buildings – including schools, health and community centres – in Aberdeen has been announced.

John Godfrey Scottish entrepreneurs have benefited from a modest uplift in funding for new businesses but a long term decline of venture capital input still persists, according to the Barclays Entrepreneurs Index, which tracks the UK entrepreneurial lifecycle.

An Aberdeen workboat and marine support firm says its recent £270,000 investment in new vessels to service the £350 million expansion of Aberdeen Harbour will be transformational for the business, helping it quadruple in size within a year.

Carolyn Aitken The public purse is missing out on £10 billion worth of unpaid tax, but that is mostly down to bad management born of ignorance rather than positive attempts to avoid payment, according to accountancy firm Saffery Champness.

Edinburgh-based Aberdeen Standard Investments has announced plans to close the Absolute Return Government Bond fund it acquired as a result of its purchase of Ignis Asset Management in 2014.

Ronnie Hinds Councils are showing increasing signs of financial stress and face even tougher challenges ahead, and three authorities could use up their cash reserves within three years, the Accounts Commission has warned.

Nora Senior The advisory panel of business and economic representatives tasked with creating a fresh strategy for enterprise and skills support in Scotland has been unveiled.