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A third round of funding to increase walking, cycling and sustainable travel has been allocated £2 million from the Scottish Government’s active travel budget for 2020/2021.

A prayer book signed by Mary Queen of Scots is due to go up for auction this summer with an estimated sale price of up to £350,000. 

Begbies Traynor Group has acquired a portfolio of 503 Scottish personal insolvency cases, including a team of five fee earners, from Grant Thornton UK LLP. The acquisition is for an initial consideration of £0.25 million and additional contingent consideration of up to £0.25m, subject to

Business advisory firm FRP Advisory has appointed Chad Griffin as its new partner to be based in Scotland.   Mr Griffin joins FRP Advisory from FTI Consulting in London, an independent practice that he helped launch and grow for the last 15 years. 

Kinloch Lodge, an award-winning luxury hotel on the Isle of Skye that has lost over a thousand bookings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, has secured its future thanks to a six-figure CBILS loan from Bank of Scotland. The family-run 19-bedroom hotel relies heavily on revenue from international touri

A joint venture owned by property entrepreneurs Bruce Linton and David Cameron has acquired north-east housebuilder Scotia Homes for an undisclosed sum. The Ellon firm said it had been acquired by Camlin Group, with the size of the majority stake also undisclosed.

Ondine, one of Edinburgh’s finest seafood restaurants, has secured a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan from Barclays.

McCrea Financial Services has appointed Veronica Thomas and Chris Bain as the firm's newest independent financial advisors.  Ms Thomas and Mr Bain have will take up their new roles at the Glasgow-based firm today.

Loganair is today relaunching two routes from Aberdeen Airport re-connecting the city with Birmingham and Newcastle, as the first step to restoring full services at one of its major hub airports after the coronavirus pandemic.

Royal Bank of Scotland and Strathclyde Business School are hosting a digital debate today designed to bring together key female Scottish business leaders. The debate will centre on the future of leadership following the coronavirus crisis.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced that the UK's coronavirus furlough scheme implemented to save jobs during the coronavirus crisis, will finish at the end of October. Mr Sunak also highlighted that employers will have to start sharing the cost of the scheme. From August, employers must pay Nation

The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has called on the Scottish Government to take bold steps to deliver an economic stimulus package in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In “Road to Recovery”, an eight-page submission to the Scottish Government’s Advisory Group on Economi

Martin Gilbert of Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) has been appointed as the new chair of the Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC). Mr Gilbert will succeed Archie Kennedy who has been vice chair and chair of the OGTC since it was established in February 2017.

Provisional analysis of clean infrastructure projects by the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) has outlined the massive benefits of a government-funded green stimulus for Scotland, with a £13 billion investment creating almost 150,000 jobs and re-absorbing workers w

Yael Selfin, KPMG UK's chief economist, highlights how the UK needs to rethink the future of its cities in light of the current coronavirus pandemic.  Recessions are usually a catalyst for change and the sharp economic downturn triggered by COVID-19 is bound to turn some things around. One of t