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An additional £450,000 has been made available as part of Scotland’s Events Recovery Fund to help the return of events across the country.

A speeding motorist was relieved of his brand-new Lamborghini just hours after he purchased it under new Danish legislation. The owner, an unnamed Iraqi man, was driving his new £228,000 car home from Germany to Norway when he was stopped by police in Denmark.

The entrepreneurial tax team at accountancy firm Chiene + Tait (C+T) has taken on five new recruits to help service major growth over the last quarter. The new colleagues include senior associates, Olivia Reilly and Romana Mohammed and associates Amber Young and Jak Henderson who bolster the si

McCrea Financial Services has announced the appointment Gerard Cumming as its new mortgage and protection adviser, as part of a recruitment drive which follows strong growth this year. With 16 years of financial services experience, the last 13 spent specialising in mortgage and protection, Mr Cummi

Edinburgh-based investment manager Par Equity has won Best EIS Manager at the prestigious 2021 EISA (Enterprise Investment Scheme Association) awards. The firm was also highly commended in the EISA Impact Award.

Exizent, the Glasgow-based technology firm, has appointed Graeme Jones, the former CEO of Scottish Financial Enterprise, as a senior adviser to its board. Mr Jones brings has decades of senior management experience within some of the UK’s leading financial institutions and extensive strategic

Wealth management and professional services group Tilney Smith & Williamson has announced two further senior hires in its financial intermediaries business development team which provides investment management services to financial advisers. Crawford Armstrong and Mark Johnson have joined the fi

G&S Investments is now the sole owner of Lanarkshire chemist thanks to substantial funding from HSBC UK. The company purchased the remaining 50% of Lesmahagow-based Abbeygreen pharmacy after owning half the business for 3.5 years.

Integrated fee-sharing law firm Spencer West LLP has launched a Scottish practice. The firm’s presence in Scotland will be spearheaded by former DLA Piper banking and finance partner, David Morton, assisted by former Fenwick Elliott Construction partner, Jonathan More, as business growth direc

Independent chartered surveyors DM Hall is set to move next month to new, highly visible office premises at 12 Bothwell Street in Glasgow.

Perth-based insurance giant Aviva has trawled through its archives to unearth a treasure trove of unusual claims dating back centuries, as it approaches its 325th anniversary on November 12. Historical claims involve a leap-frogging vicar, a swearing parrot and an elephant who attempted to get insid

Scottish private sector firms registered a further sharp uplift in business activity during September, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland PMI. The seasonally adjusted headline Royal Bank of Scotland Business Activity Index - a measure of combined manufacturing and service sector output -

TSB has extended its pilot scheme that offers bank accounts to homeless people. The programme, which may be implemented elsewhere in the UK, has been extended to the end of this year.

Virgin Money, owner of Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank, has launched a free new app designed to help businesses be more sustainable by measuring, tracking and offering guidance on improving their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) credentials. Through its partnership with Future-Fit Found

The first recipients of a fund set up to help Scotland’s manufacturing industries reduce emissions have been announced by the Scottish Government. Eight companies will share £3.4 million through the first round of the Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF), with additiona