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Matt Strachan, chief investment officer at Thorntons Investments Thorntons Investments celebrated a double success at the Growth Investors 2018 Awards at the Royal Lancaster in London this week.

Bill Michael “Big Four” accountancy firm KPMG is to cease undertaking consulting work for FTSE 350 companies where it serves as auditor to avoid conflicts of interest following a string of scandals.

Alasdair McKinnon, the lead fund manager of the Scottish Investment Trust accepted the Shares Award from the host Shappi Khorsandi The Scottish Investment Trust PLC (The Scottish) has announced today that it has been named ‘Best Investment Trust’ at the Shares Awards 2018.

Dundee Sheriff Court (Image: Google) A Perthshire bank worker accused of embezzling more than £800,000 from customers at his branch has been cleared of the charges.

Gillian Martin MSP Much of Scotland’s land will remain outside the proposed Register of Controlled Interests in Land, whose purpose is to make land ownership more transparent – according to a report by the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee.

A food and drink business incubator is to be built in Inverclyde by Riverside Inverclyde (Ri), the organisation charged with delivering the economic redevelopment of Inverclyde in the west of Scotland.

Tasnim Ghiawadwala Tasnim Ghiawadwala has joined Barclays as its new head of UK corporate banking as news emerged that the high street giant is considering more than one hundred redundancies in its technology infrastructure team.

Ross Stupart Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM and Entrepreneurial Scotland have joined forces to spearhead a delegation of Scottish businesses in the US to facilitate transatlantic trade.

Labour market conditions in Scotland remained robust during October, with recruitment agencies signalling sharp growth in permanent placements and temp staff billings, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs.

Mark Prentice and Allison McCowan of Hampden & Co Hampden & Co has hired Allison McCowan from C. Hoare & Co, the oldest private bank in the UK.

Ahead of their annual conference Scotland’s leading Health and Safety Charity Scottish Hazards has today released a major new piece of research into the huge extent of workplace stress in the nation's public sector.

Robert Fraser Bob Fraser, a director in the Dundee office of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors, assesses the V&A effect on the City of Discovery's property market

Part of the old tram depot on Leith Walk has been brought back to life as modern office space and a creative hub.

More than 1 million Scots have benefited either directly or indirectly from social investment, according to Social Investment Scotland’s (SIS) latest annual Social Impact report.

In October, house prices in Scotland continued to rise in the face of uncertainty, according to the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey.