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The rising cost of living, increasing house prices and higher interest rates have forced house-buyers into taking out 35-year mortgages to afford their monthly repayments.

Drivers in Derbyshire have been obstructed by hundreds of McVitie's biscuits, as a lorry driver spilt a delivery of the biscuits across a main road. Derbyshire constabulary were called to Ilkeston Road, in Sandiacre, at about 4.30pm on Monday after the road and pavement were strewn with Ginger Nuts

Tax avoidance schemes have been named for the first time by HMRC as users are warned they could face large tax bills. HMRC has today advised anyone involved in Absolute Outsourcing’s or Purple Pay Limited’s Equity Participation Scheme to withdraw from them as soon as possible to prevent

Filippo Dioguardi, the director of Glasgow-based Camardo Coffee (Scotland), has been disqualified as a director for nine years after a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan could not be accounted for. Mr Dioguardi was sole director of the company which was incorporated in 2015 and registered initially at a

Fife-based healthcare screening and diagnostics firm Agilis Health has acquired the UK occupational health division of global safety training and competency company, RelyOn Nutec. The firm has now over the delivery of the corporate health services at RelyOn Nutec’s training centres in Aberdeen

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published its 3-Year Plan which sets out the FRC’s progress toward establishing the new Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority (ARGA). The FRC’s 3-Year Plan follows the government’s 2021 consultation ‘Restoring Trust in Audit and C

Murgitroyd, the pan-European intellectual property protection (IP) business, has acquired the Glasgow-based IP specialist firm, Creation IP. The move is the latest step in Murgitroyd’s growth and expansion strategy and is the company’s third acquisition inside eight months.

Balerno-based Artis Dental and Implant Studio has joined the Clyde Munro Dental Group with its two dentists and 10 support staff promising “business as usual” for its 4500 patients. Founded 16 years ago by owner Brian Clough and his wife Edel, Artis Dental services has a thriving patient

Derek Forsyth and Nicola Banham, partners with Azets, have been appointed joint administrators of Bracknell Property LLP and Bracknell Property Subco Limited.

The latest round of awards from the first year of the Marine Fund Scotland (MFS) has provided fishing businesses and marine organisations in coastal communities with £7.4 million in funding. Overall, around £14 million has been awarded to date in 2021/22 across a range of projects, inclu

The corporate finance team at Henderson Loggie has advised on the sale of Edinburgh-based Truststream Security Solutions, one of the UK’s fastest growing providers of professional and managed cyber security services, to SysGroup plc, the managed IT services, cyber security and cloud hosting pr

Following a multi-million-pound refurbishment, worldwide IT specialist Fujitsu has taken 7,664 sq ft of workspace at CEG’s Verdant office development at South Gyle Business Park in west Edinburgh.

Glasgow-based creative agency Bright Signals has grown from 31 to 45 staff following the acquisitions of digital agency Three Part Story and Edinburgh-based advertising agency PUNK Creative. The three agencies will now operate as a single integrated team under the Bright Signals brand.

Partners at Grant Thornton saw their pay rise by 35% in 2021, according to the firm's 2021 Annual Report. Grant Thornton's 190 UK partners, took home £611,000 for their work in 2021. However, this remains significantly less than partners at Big Four firms.

An aggressive recruitment market could hamper start-ups in Scotland’s booming financial technology sector, according to senior fintech experts. Buoyed by a £300 million UK Government investment last August, Edinburgh’s fintech community is populated by a swathe of financial service