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The Scottish Marine Environmental Enhancement Fund (SMEEF) has received £500,000 from the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund to transform the health of Scotland’s coasts and seas. Now, NatureScot and partners are asking marine businesses and the larger industry to contri

Caledonian Marts Ltd, the Stirling-based livestock and specialist auction company, have raised £70,064 at a successful charity auction in support of the people of Ukraine. The auction, held simultaneously online and live at the Caledonian Mart, included a host of exciting unique and exciting l

Edinburgh-based sour beer producer Vault City Brewing has launched a core range for the first time and enlisted hundreds of independent bars nationwide to help spread the good word.

Big Four firm KPMG is set to be fined £14.4 million after a Financial Reporting Council (FRC) tribunal found that its auditors deliberately misled regulators during routine inspections of its audit of collapsed government contractor Carillion. The £14.4m fine for KPMG would be the second

Twenty-two businesses from the Highlands and Islands have started the latest Pathfinder Accelerator programme operated by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), which aims to put them on the fast track to success. The programme has been developed by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and is del

Yesterday, staff from Bank of Scotland-owner Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) held a demonstration outside the Group’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in a pay dispute with the bank. Unite the Union members are angry that the 2022 pay arrangement has left many low paid bank workers fearing for their ec

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has been appointed by Tom MacLennan, Iain Fraser and Chad Griffin of FRP Advisory, the joint administrators of Countesswells Development Limited (CDL), to market a substantial prime development site in Aberdeen formerly owned by CDL which went into administration at the

A baseball signed by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has sold at auction for more than $50,000.

London-headquartered KultraLab, a behavioural science and technology company, will open a new hub in Edinburgh after it received more than £2 million investment from Kelvin Capital and Scottish Enterprise in a move that will create up to 25 jobs.

Terra Firma will present a Private Client seminar at the Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh on Thursday 16th June 2022. The seminar will feature talks by Philip Simpson QC on inheritance tax and Fergus Colquhoun on liferents.

BGF has today completed a £1.6 million investment in Aiber, a Scottish med-tech firm, headquartered in Inverness. This completes a £2m fundraising round, with existing investors Scottish Enterprise and Equity Gap also participating.

Thompsons Solicitors Scotland is moving closer to its South West Scotland clients and is expanding its national footprint, opening a new office in Dumfries town centre. The office, based on Buccleuch Street, will bring Thompsons’ specialist personal injury and “On-Demand” referral

Scottish Enterprise has announced a new initiative that it hopes will position Scotland as a global leader in the supply chain and manufacturing for heat pumps and heat networks.

Strategic real estate advisor Avison Young has highlighted a change in office occupier strategy in Scotland in the first quarter of 2022 as it released its latest quarterly Big Nine office market update. The Big Nine quarterly review shows the take-up in the major regional office occupier marke

Scottish house prices continued to edge upwards, but some forward-looking indicators softened slightly, according to the April RICS Residential MarketSurvey.