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A Glasgow high school pupil has presented her ideas on running the country to Scotland’s top entrepreneurs – and scooped a £35k school prize pot. Hyndland Secondary School S1 pupil Parvathy Othagatt entered The Hunter Foundation’s “If I Ruled Scotland” competition

Deloitte has announced the winners of the 2025 UK Technology Fast 50 awards, with three Scottish companies among the ranking. The awards recognise and rank the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK based on average revenue growth over a three-year period, and are sponsored by Citi, Oracl

Edinburgh-based fund manager Baillie Gifford is set to pay out as much as £12 million in "catastrophe bond" insurance following Hurricane Melissa.

Sir Dave Lewis, the executive widely credited with steering Tesco out of the worst crisis in its history, has been appointed chief executive of the struggling drinks giant Diageo. He will take the helm of the FTSE 100 company on 1 January. The appointment is considered a significant coup for th

KPMG is reducing the pay ranges for new and promoted staff in its UK offices near London, aligning salaries in commuter belt towns such as Reading and Watford with regional centres like Birmingham and Manchester. The shake-up means individuals joining or achieving promotion in these locations may be

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is set to launch a new US-style incentive programme, offering significant financial rewards to whistleblowers who report large-scale tax fraud.

Edinburgh law firm Murray Beith Murray has assets of nearly £3.2 million, the firm has revealed in its first-ever published accounts. The private client firm has more than doubled its turnover in the last decade, with revenue up by 10% last year alone, according to financial information publis

Shawbrook has completed a multi-million-pound facility to support Carmichael Homes in delivering The Moorings, a 40-unit residential scheme in Falkirk. Located in the commuter village of Reddingmuirhead, the new development will transform a former brownfield industrial site on the banks of the Union

Three of the UK’s most influential business organisations have made a rare joint intervention, urging Chancellor Rachel Reeves to abolish the Energy Profits Levy (EPL). The British Chambers of Commerce, Scottish Chambers of Commerce, and Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce (AGCC) have

A judge has imposed a fine of more than £1,000 on the owner of a cat for trespassing into a neighbour's garden – with further fines threatened for future transgressions. Dominique Valdès, who lives in Béziers in southern France, said hearing the controversial ruling about h

A Scottish start-up that began around a kitchen table in Moray is now building a national wellbeing movement, thanks to Business Gateway support and a business model that is turning creativity into community care. When designer, Stuart Cox, and mental health professional, Jean Pryde, launched Brilli

Jonathan Sutton and Marcus Pickering Royal Elizabeth Bond, a major new bonded Scotch whisky warehousing development on the outskirts of Edinburgh, has appointed two partners to bring gold-standard cask and inventory management to the heart of operations.

Kenny Craig of Begbies Traynor has been appointed as trustee in Sequestration of the estate of the late Alex Salmond following an application to the Accountant in Bankruptcy made by Moira Salmond, in her capacity as executrix. The winding up of the former First Minister’s estate will include t

Tesla shareholders have approved a record-breaking pay package for CEO Elon Musk, potentially worth nearly $1 trillion (c. £760bn), during a lively annual general meeting in Austin, Texas. The unprecedented deal, which passed with 75% approval, does not include a salary. Instead, Musk will be

FRP Advisory has launched its forensic services offering to clients in Scotland, marking the occasion with its inaugural Beyond the Numbers seminar – an event designed to help legal, regulatory and investigative professionals stay ahead of advances in accounting and digital investigations.