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Barclays LifeSkills has teamed up with Scottish social enterprise The Wise Group to provide support to groups and individuals most in need during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Wise Group will work with the bank on a one-year programme in Kilmarnock to deliver LifeSkills resources to indi

The Scottish Government has announced a new £40 million fund to help businesses affected by temporary restrictions to slow the spread of coronavirus. The COVID-19 Restrictions Fund will provide one-off grants of up to £3,000, depending on rateable value, to bars, restaurants and oth

A resident of Louth County in the Republic of Ireland has run up a €20,000 bill for unpaid parking tickets. The individual currently owes €2,100 on 35 unpaid tickets.

Chartered accountant Amjad Hassan from EY's Edinburgh office has been announced as the 2020 winner of a global competition searching for the best and brightest CAs in the world of accounting, finance and business. The announcement was made by ICAS (the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland)

Azets, the accountancy firm that was previously known as Campbell Dallas and Scott Moncrieff in Scotland, has appointed 31 graduate trainees and apprentices across Scotland.  Since 2013, 150 graduate trainees and apprentices have been recruited across Scotland by Azets and the former firms.&nbs

The Spanish division of accountancy firm BDO is facing a €100 million fine over a fishing company's accounts. BDO's Spanish division was the auditor of Pescanova, a Galician foods group, for over ten years before the firm filed for insolvency in 2013, having incurred debts of more than &eu

Loreburn Housing Association has agreed an additional £20 million funding programme with Royal Bank of Scotland to create a new social housing programme for Dumfries and Galloway.

Employers in Scotland who may have wrongly claimed support from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) are being warned to act now to avoid significant penalties from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

Eric Curran, managing partner at DM Hall chartered surveyors, discusses the state of residential property market in Scotland. There is, I am sure, a more measured and professional way of saying this, and in more normal times I would instinctively reach for it, but the stark fact of the matter is tha

Stirling could benefit from a £15 million investment thanks to a proposed new Scotch Whisky distillery by Wolfcraig.

Glasgow has raced out of the starting blocks in its bid to double the size of its city centre population over the next 15 years to 40,000. Civic leaders were last week handed a very welcome boost to their ambitions to deliver their City Centre Living Strategy (CCLS) when LGIM Real Assets (Legal &

The new measures introduced in Scotland to control the spread of coronavirus will have a negative impact on retailers in Scotland who are trying to 'claw their way back' to pre-crisis footfall levels, according to David Lonsdale, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC). 

Almost half of Scots (48%) agree that there is now an opportunity to make Scotland’s economy stronger and fairer, according to Cooperative Development Scotland's survey into the effects of COVID-19 on businesses in Scotland.

Cairn Gorm will benefit from more than £20.51 million of funding from the Scottish Government and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) to make it a year-round attraction, generating significant economic benefits for the local area and Scotland’s tourism sector. Funded by the Scottish G

A package of financial flexibilities and extra funding for councils which could be worth up to £750 million has been agreed by the Scottish Government in partnership with COSLA. To address the financial pressures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic over the next two years, councils will be granted