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Glasgow law firms Hill Brown and Miller Samuel are joining forces to create one of the city’s largest independent practices. The merger is the latest in a long series of mergers and takeovers since the crash of 2008 and reflects the continuing restructuring of the Scottish legal sector.

Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Investment Bank have backed a plan to bring the first brewery to Dundee in nearly 50 years. Along with private investment, a total of £650,000 has been provided to Duncan Alexander and Mark Griffiths, the brains behind 71 Brewing, in order to convert an industri

The agreement between the Scottish and UK Governments on the financial arrangements to underpin the Scotland Bill has been published. The fiscal framework agreement confirms:

Scottish local authorities will receive a total funding package of £10.3 billion in 2016-17 as council tax will be frozen for the ninth consecutive year, deputy first minister John Swinney confirmed yesterday. The settlement includes over £26 million for Discretionary Housing Payments, part of the

Still 73 per cent state-owned, bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland has reported a near £2 billion loss for 2015. The results meant an eighth consecutive year of annual losses for the Edinburgh-based lender.

Scott Baxter and Phil Anderson A north-east financial services firm is pledging its support to a local charity, to help fund key projects for those affected by homelessness in Aberdeen and the surrounding area.

Accountancy firm RSM is advising businesses to pay their VAT on time after a Tax Tribunal ruled that a six figure fine imposed for missing a VAT payment by one day was ‘proportionate’. Blue Ocean Associates Limited appealed to the First Tier Tax Tribunal after being hit with a VAT default surcha

The six finalists of the AccelerateHER pitching event Six aspiring entrepreneurs are through to the final of an £18,000 pitching competition organised by Scotland’s first female angel investment group.

Property investors have warned that the UK would be a less attractive place to invest were it to leave the European Union, according to findings of a new survey by global property adviser CBRE. As part of a CBRE special report Heading For The Exit? published today, the survey of CBRE's investor clie

The UK has seen a double-digit rise in economic crime against corporates in the last two years, with 55 per cent of organisations affected, an increase of 11 percentage points since 2014, significantly outstripping the level in countries such as the US (38 per cent) and China (28 per cent). Globally

Sue Hogg (CHAS), David Cunningham (ARCHIE), Garreth Wood, Sir Tom Hunter (STV Children's Appeal), Dr Kenneth Simpson (VSA) The profits of two restaurants in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, run by Scottish philanthropist Garreth Wood and totalling more than £250,000, are to be donated to charity.

Two in five Scottish small firms haven’t decided how they will vote in the upcoming referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, a new Federation of Small Businesses’ (FSB) survey has revealed. The poll, the first business survey conducted since the referendum date was announced, heard from ov

Plans for a new Scotland-wide housing initiative that could help deliver thousands of purpose-built homes for private rent have been unveiled by social justice secretary Alex Neil. The Private Rented Sector (PRS) Rental Income Guarantee scheme would see the Scottish Government sharing a proportion o

Craig Whyte, Gavin Hood (head of advisory corporate finance at Deloitte in Scotland), Colin Tait and Robbie Glass Deloitte in Scotland has announced the appointment of a specialist team of business valuers, which it says gives the business advisory firm a unique proposition for clients north of the

Fraser Sutherland Private parking firms in Scotland are passing outstanding parking tickets on to debt collection agencies, resulting in more Scottish car owners being threatened with court action over disputed charges, according to Citizens Advice Scotland.