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Terms have been agreed by South of Scotland Enterprise on behalf of the Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal to purchase Caerlee Mill in Innerleithen to create a home for the new Mountain Bike Innovation Centre.

Pensions giant Royal London has confirmed that it has held merger talks with LV=. Royal London has issued a statement revealing that the firm has had initial exploratory discussions with LV=, as the firm believes it could offer an "attractive future for the members of LV=" as part of "a growing and

Clyde Munro Dental Group has been given a further £25 million war chest for acquisitions – after getting the green light from its biggest backer for a new funding package. Already Scotland’s biggest independent dental group, the firm will now embark on a period of further growth th

Dundee-based Twisted Sisters has launched some of the first Scottish hard seltzers to market after business owner Ruth Jones received advice and support from Business Gateway.

Royal Bank of Scotland is offering £150 to new and existing customers who switch their main current account. New RBS customers can apply to switch to a Select or Reward account. In addition to Select or Reward accounts, existing customers can also switch to Reward Silver, Reward Platinum or Re

The Edinburgh Tax Network and Chartered Institute of Taxation invite you to join Janet Mui and Graeme Muir of Brewin Dolphin for an update on financial markets and analysis of pensions by webinar on Thursday 24th February 2020 from 1pm to 2pm. At this event, Janet and Graeme will discuss:

The Scottish Government has today announced £6 million in funding to drive innovation across the public sector to improve the lives of Scottish citizens, and support a new generation of technology businesses and entrepreneurs. Awarded to CivTech - the world’s first Government-run acceler

Flaws found in the way Scottish Canals recorded and valued its assets meant auditors could not give an opinion on its accounts, according to a new report published by Audit Scotland. Scottish Canals' status changed from a public corporation to a non-departmental public body in 2020/21. That cha

Charles Darwin stole his theory of evolution from a Scottish naturalist, a criminologist has said. Dr Mike Sutton says his research proves “overwhelming” similarities between On the Origin of Species and the work of Perthshire-raised Patrick Matthew.

Scottish B Corp brewer Brewgooder has announced new contract deals with two of Scotland’s most renowned craft brewers – Fierce Brewing and Williams Brothers – as it gets set to fulfil an order book of more than £5 million annually by 2024. Brewgooder, which uses a “full

Scotland could miss out on hundreds of millions of pounds if the UK Government does not fulfil its promise to fully replace lost EU funding, according to employment minister Richard Lochhead. The UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF), which is intended to replace EU structural funds los

SIS Ventures has launched a second round of fundraising with the aim of attracting up to £5 million to scale up its support for Scotland’s high impact potential early-stage businesses. SIS Ventures’ Impact First fund provides the opportunity for investors to make tax-efficient fina

Consumer confidence fell by one percentage point for a second consecutive quarter in Q4 2021, reaching -11%, according to the latest Deloitte Consumer Tracker.

St Andrews-based investment firm Eos Advisory's portfolio has reached a total valuation of £121 million based on latest investment rounds, and saw its first two exit events in 2021. In January 2021, Eos announced that it had led a £1.24m investment into RAB-Microfluidics, an Aberdeen-hea

Scott James & Associates, a senior partner practice of St. James's Place Wealth Management, has broken through the £100 million funds under management barrier. The Aberdeen-based firm revealed that it had benefitted from increased demand for financial advice throughout the pandemic, this l