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Wealth manager James Hambro and Partners (JH&P) has appointed Chris Hardie as a financial planning specialist in its Edinburgh office. Hardie has worked in financial planning for ten years and is a Chartered Financial Planner. He holds the Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning and is a Fellow o

HMRC is urging businesses to take steps to prepare for Making Tax Digital for Value Added Tax (VAT) before it becomes mandatory for all VAT-registered businesses from 1 April this year. Making Tax Digital is designed to help businesses eliminate common errors and save time managing their tax affairs

The Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) has committed £20 million of cornerstone funding to Lothian Broadband Group (LBG) to help tackle digital inequality in rural communities and small towns in Scotland. The bank’s funding commitment is in addition to £5m of new investment f

Richard Dunbar, head of multi-asset research at abrdn, discusses the outlook for 2022. Ongoing inflationary shocks, questions around interest rates and the emergence of the new Omicron Covid variant are all making navigating uncertainty more challenging. Nonetheless, when we look beyond the headline

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is working to become a more innovative, adaptive and assertive regulator in 2022. The regulator said that this approach will enable the FCA to meet the challenges of the increasingly data-driven financial services sector in the UK, the shift to a net-zero econom

Simon Poole, the co-founder and managing director of North Berwick based Jerba Campervans, is a double winner at the IoD Awards. After being praised for his leadership on customer service and championing high levels of employee wellbeing, Simon Poole was awarded Director of the Year for Small-Medium

A record low number of UK companies are set to have gone into administration in 2021, according to the latest figures published by Interpath Advisory. Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the firm revealed that 618 firms fell into administration in 2021, which in 2020, the final full-year co

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has fined Mazars £314,000 for failing to comply with the Regulatory Framework for Auditing in its audit of a local government authority’s 2019 financial statements. The FRC's Enforcement Committee found failures in the reviewed audit, which it consid

An Inverness suburb is gearing up for the opening of £1.5 million of new retail space this month, the property investment development firm behind the project has confirmed. The development in Culduthel, which comprises four units totalling 4,100 sq ft and with 23 parking spaces is expected to

Scottish housebuilder Miller Homes is being acquired by a fund managed by Apollo from fellow private equity giant Bridgepoint Group.

Airlie Green Low Energy Homes Ltd, an eco-housing developer based in Perth, has secured a £1.16 million development loan from specialist lender Assetz Capital.

Glasgow-based accountancy firm William Duncan + Co has appointed Neil Reid to its board. Mr Reid, who marks 25 years with William Duncan + Co in March, trained and qualified with the firm, and has been a very important part of the firm’s progression and development, with a strong focus on

Swedish hospitality group Pandox has entered into an agreement to acquire the 146-room Adagio Aparthotel Edinburgh for £40.5 million.

A celebrity chef has won defamation proceedings brought against a food critic who wrote a scathing review of his "bland risotto".

HMRC is waiving late filing and late payment penalties for Self Assessment taxpayers for one month, giving them extra time, if they need it, to complete their 2020/21 tax return and pay any tax due. HMRC is encouraging taxpayers to file and pay on time if they can, as the department reveals that, of