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Elgin-based firm IT Central has launched a specialist studio space to support businesses and communities in the area and further afield, thanks to £25,000 funding from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). The new academy offers a 12-week, five-module course to enable businesses to tell thei

Edinburgh Innovations, the University of Edinburgh’s commercialisation service, is hosting commercialisation experts from 10 leading transatlantic universities to find ways to boost investment in regional centres of innovation away from long-established hotspots. The latest ‘TenU Hosts&r

Last month, a rare 14th-century French gothic cabinet set a new record for the most valuable work of art ever sold in Scotland. The carved ivory cabinet sold for £1,455,000 at Lyon in Turnbull in Edinburgh.

Employees are expected to become the owners of 30 more Scottish companies this year - double the number of deals completed in 2020, according to law firm Lindsays. The forecast has been made as Employee Ownership Day (EO Day) today highlights the growing contribution of staff-owned companies to the

Kirsty Greenhill, virtual finance function senior manager at Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB), discusses why location no longer hinders businesses' finance function. There is a big push to ‘shop local’ to help reduce the carbon footprint of our food and drink products from field to pl

Loganair, the UK’s largest regional airline, has announced that it is to re-launch direct flights between Aberdeen and Dublin in September. The announcement comes just two weeks after the previous service between the cities was lost with the collapse of Stobart Air.

More than £5.8 million in recovery funding from the Scottish Tourism Emergency Response Group (STERG) is to be spent improving infrastructure and creating jobs at a number of Scotland’s popular visitor destinations and nature hotspots.

The harm done to Scotland’s economy, trade, population, education and governance by Brexit is becoming increasingly clear, a new paper released by the Scottish Government has found. External Affairs Secretary Angus Robertson said once the public health crisis is over, Scotland should exercise

A £190,000 funding programme to promote the sale of local produce in convenience stores across Scotland is underway. The Go Local initiative, funded by the Scottish Government, will see at least 21 grants paid to convenience store operators, allowing increased sales of fresh, healthy, locally

The Bank of England (BoE) has forecast that annual inflation would likely surpass 3% for a "temporary period". Yesterday, the bank announced the revised forecast at its monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting where it also decided to hold the UK base rate at 0.1%.

Argyll and Bute Council has given the go-ahead for a ballot on the proposal to establish a Business Improvement District (BID) on the Isle of Bute. A BID is part of a town, tourism and visitor area in which businesses work together to invest in local improvements to help enhance their communities. B

Hundreds of visitors to Brighton Pier were charged over £2,000 by mistake after a Worldpay glitch mixed up the date and ticket price.

An extremely rare Edward III gold coin lost in the wake of the Black Death has been found by a metal detectorist in Norfolk.

The Fraser of Allander Institute (FOAI) at the University of Strathclyde now forecasts that the economy will reach its pre-pandemic peak in the summer of 2022, three months earlier than was forecast in March.

Menzies Distribution, a spin-out of Edinburgh-based John Menzies, has secured a new £14 million term loan with Royal Bank of Scotland. The new loan, together with existing cash funds, has enabled Menzies to refinance its recent short-term debt used to fund the acquisition of Bibby Distribution