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Police have paid tribute to their "bovine unit" after wandering cows brought a car chase to a safe end.

Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser, partners with FRP, have sold the business, assets and goodwill of Wooha Brewing Company Limited, which was in administration, to North Coast Brewing Co Ltd.

Business advisory firm Thomson Cooper has announced that Fiona Haro, its head of charities, has been approved by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) to become a Responsible Individual (RI) for audit purposes, the fourth member of their partnership team to hold RI status. Ms Har

Dundee-based Cellexus has been awarded a £320,000 grant from Innovate UK, the UK's innovation agency, for the research and development of a 100L bioreactor for stem cell applications.

The Scottish brothers behind Valentian Vermouth have launched a £100,00 crowdfunding campaign to help build a ‘centre for vermouth excellence’ and sales operation in the Scottish Borders. David and Dominic Tait, who founded Tait Bros. in 2019 are out to recruit an ‘army of ad

The Institute of Directors (IoD) Scotland has welcomed its new national director, Louise Macdonald in the same week that it has moved its new members' hub to the Royal College of Physicians at 12 Queen Street, Edinburgh. Ms Macdonald, who is the first female National Director of the organisation in

The Artisanal Spirits Company, the owner of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS), has announced the admission of its entire issued share capital, being 69,605,774 Ordinary Shares, to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. Dealings in the Ordinary Shares commenced at 8.00 a.m. today

Real estate advisor Avison Young has released its latest UK Cities Recovery Index data for Edinburgh and Glasgow, highlighting market activity and the speed and trajectory of the recovery following the ongoing impact experienced across the cities as a result of Covid-19. Reduced restrictions and dec

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a webinar entitled Employment Taxes – Latest Updates on 23 June 2021 from 1pm to 2pm. The speaker will be Caroline Colliston, Corporate Tax Partner at DWF. She will discuss:-

Scottish footfall decreased by 24.7% in May (Yo2Y), a 27.4 percentage point increase from April, according to the latest Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and Sensormatic IQ Footfall Monitor.

Ahead of the rescheduled four-nations Covid recovery summit, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is calling on the UK Government to extend furlough, rule out a return to austerity and prioritise a just recovery from the pandemic, ensuring that pre-existing inequalities are not further exacerbated by the

Finance minister Kate Forbes is to deliver a ministerial address to open tech investor conference EIE21 next Thursday 10th June. Forbes, a former digital economy minister, was re-elected as MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch in the Scottish Parliament election in May, before being appointed as Cabi

With the year’s first full month of showroom openings, new car registrations in May reached 156,737 units, as renewed business confidence boosted car sales, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The total represents an almost eightfold incr

The US military has apologised after accidentally storming an olive oil factory in Bulgaria.

Iain Fraser and Chad Griffin, partners with FRP, have been appointed joint administrators of N-Sea Offshore Limited, an Aberdeen-based integrated provider of subsea services. N-Sea Offshore was launched in 2014 and is a subsidiary of the global N-Sea Group which is headquartered in the Netherlands.