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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.

Over the next five years, the Insolvency Service is set to transition to regional centres, reducing the number of offices whilst maintaining high standards of customer service and delivering better value for money. To enhance value for money for the taxpayer whilst maintaining excellent customer ser

The start of the second quarter saw a further marked increase in hiring activity across Scotland, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs survey. That said, the seasonally adjusted Permanent Placements Index slid from 71.7 in March to 65.0 in April, to signal the softest increa

The first of 30 new convenience stores, Eddy’s Food Station, opened yesterday creating 14 new jobs in Alloa, with a further 500 roles across central Scotland over the next five years. Alloa, Clackmannanshire is the first flagship of a new chain of Eddy’s Food Station stores, the newest v

A Canadian MP has apologised after making a remote appearance – from a toilet. Other MPs quickly recognised the distinctive background of the parliament building's bathroom as Shafqat Ali, a Liberal MP in Toronto, joined the parliamentary session from his phone.

Modular West Ltd, a modular housing construction business on the Isle of Barra, has been awarded £105,000 funding from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) to help build a new factory. Modular West Ltd builds bespoke housing and commercial modules and was established last year by local Barra