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Clark Contracts has secured over £30 million in new orders in October, a record month for the Paisley-based contractor. The new orders include the £8m design and build of a new industrial unit within Belgrave Logistics Park in Bellshill for Knight Property Group.

Legislation to update and strengthen existing charity law has been published by the Scottish Government.

Faster reform of Scotland’s public sector is needed to protect services in the long term and improve people’s lives, according to Audit Scotland. The public body has said that the Scottish Government is facing increased costs, including a higher public sector wage bill, while the cost-of

More than 24,900 families in Scotland benefitted from UK Government funding towards childcare costs in September 2022, HMRC has revealed.

Businesswomen across Lanarkshire have been invited to receive fully funded mentorship, training, networking and guidance from some of Scotland’s leading entrepreneurs and coaches in a new programme. Glasgow-based leadership consultancy Connect Three – which has delivered four successful

Junior ISA investments in Scotland have soared ahead of the UK average, new data reveals. Data from Scottish Friendly’s latest Investor Index shows that the number of junior stocks and shares ISA policies opened by Scottish households in the three months to September was 27% higher than t

Inflation has reached 11.1%, a 41-year high, the newest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. A jump in energy costs, despite the Energy Price Guarantee (EPG), and rising food prices, which rose by 16.4% — the biggest annual increase since 1977 — pushed C

The oldest of the millennial generation would prefer their parents to use their cash to comfortably fund their own retirement rather than receive it as an inheritance, according to research from Barclays Wealth. The research of 4,000 40-year-old millennials and their parents reveals disparities when

A return to austerity would have significant consequences for people and public services, deputy first minister John Swinney has warned ahead of the UK government’s autumn statement. Mr Swinney has called for an alternative to austerity to avoid the UK Government “prolonging” the r

Workplace furniture procurement firm Bureau Group has acquired furniture business assets from 2NDHND Ltd, a Dundonald-based company which entered administration last month. Shona Campbell of Henderson Loggie LLP acted as joint administrator of 2NDHND after being appointed alongside Lee Green an

Million Dollar has become the first real estate company to provide a platform for the buying and selling of land in the Metaverse.

The Energy Training Academy has appointed Alan Earsman to its board as finance director. A former senior finance figure with the Royal Bank of Scotland, Mr Earsman joins the senior management team running Scotland’s first community-focused energy training centre on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

The average price of a property in Scotland in September 2022 was £191,941, an increase of 7.3% on September 2021 but a 0.9% decrease compared with the previous month. The latest provisional statistics from the UK HPI show that the volume of residential sales in Scotland in July 2022

EQ Accountants LLP have appointed Ben Connolly as tax manager in their Glenrothes office. Mr Connolly joined EQ last Monday, having previously worked as a client tax manager. He is ACCA qualified with over 10 years’ experience in the profession and is a qualified Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA), b

Barclays has launched a pilot offering up to £2,000 to its residential mortgage customers that make certain energy efficient home improvements. Energy usage is a top priority for many households, three quarters (75%) of homeowners intend to make energy efficiency-related changes to their homes