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A woman who tried to raffle a Scottish castle because she couldn’t sell it on the open market has been rapped by the advertising watchdog for substituting the property for a cash prize instead.

Two of Scotland’s foremost independent commercial law firms, Edinburgh-based Davidson Chalmers and Glasgow boutique Kergan Stewart, have announced they are to merge on 1 May. The newly named Davidson Chalmers Stewart will combine 16 partners and 45 staff creating a team of commercial legal exp

A senior MP has launched a withering attack on Royal Bank of Scotland over its treatment of its mortgage customers who have fallen victim to the leasehold racket and subsequent crisis that has resulted from the ongoing consumer scandal. Peter Bottomley, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on

Police are warning that anyone can become a victim of bogus callers after authorities revealed figures showing Scottish householders lost more than £700,000 in just six months to doorstep scams.

The number of unemployed people in Scotland has fallen to a new record low following the first three months of this year, according to official figures that have also revealed UK pay growth has reached its fastest rate since the financial crisis. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the job

A new report has called for a “fundamental review” of local government funding to examine new and alternative sources of revenue. According to a joint paper from Unison Scotland and the Jimmy Reid Foundation, an expansion of local public services is possible with a fairer

Eleanor Mannion and Laurie Anderson look back on the last 20 years of the minimum wage.  

Leading figure from business, politics, academia and the public sector will meet in Edinburgh next week to help plot a course for Scotland’s post-Brexit future. Broadcaster Robert Peston and Scotland’s Finance Minister Derek Mackay will be joined by Dame Vivian Hunt, managing partne

Morisons’ collapse came in the wake of a number of partner resignations, documents have shown. Administrators FRP Advisory’s report states that the departures “would have resulted in a significant loss of both clients and turnover” at the firm, whose origins ar

Royal Bank of Scotland has announced the relaunch of its business credit card aimed at start ups and smaller SMEs, with the bank now offering the card free of charge for the first year, to all new customers. The lender has also reduced the ongoing annual fee on the Royal Bank Business card to £

World record-holding cyclist Mark Beaumont is to address next week’s Investing Women conference in Edinburgh. The Scot holds the record for cycling round the world, set in 2017 when he completed his 18,000-mile route in under 79 days.

A 40-year-old man whose parents allegedly binned his pornography collection, worth tens of thousands of pounds, has launched a court case against them. He had previously reported his parents to the police, but prosecutors in the US state of Indiana declined to press charges.

TSB has today announced a UK banking first, a Fraud Refund Guarantee, to ensure the bank’s 5.2 million customers are protected if they are an innocent victim of fraud – whether it’s unauthorised transactions on their accounts or customers tricked into authorising payments to frauds

Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has appointed Michael McAllister as its regional head of payroll outsourcing, in a moved brokered by HRC Recruitment. In the newly-created role, Mr McAllister joins RSM Employer Services Limited to lead the firm’s payroll services offering at its centres of e

ESPL Regulatory Consulting (ESPL), which provides specialist regulatory services to the life sciences and pharmaceutical / medical device industries, has become the latest company in Scotland to be employee-owned.  Ownership of ESPL has transferred from the Erwood family to a trust for the bene