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Adrian Chiles has won a seven-year battle with HMRC over a £1.7 million tax bill for his broadcasting work. A first-tier tax tribunal ruled that Chiles was right to organise his financial affairs through his company, Basic Broadcasting, and was not in effect an employee of the BBC and ITV.

The NWH Group, a Dalkeith-based recycling firm, has welcomed a £19 million funding package from the Royal Bank of Scotland, as it underlines its commitment to sustainable operations.

Business confidence in the UK decreased for a second-quarter running, receding to average levels not seen since 2014, according to a new survey published by The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

A courthouse dramatically went into lockdown after suspicious packages on its doorstep were reported to police – which turned out to be from Taco Bell.

Property development and construction group Cruden has taken an important strategic step to combine its construction businesses across the Central Belt of Scotland.

Scottish Enterprise has today unveiled the forecasted impact of its £1.3m package of support for the third cohort of its flagship business growth and leadership programme Unlocking Ambition. The latest group of entrepreneurs, who joined the nationwide programme in September 2021 and will gradu

Scottish retail sales in Scotland decreased by 7.9% in January, an improvement of .1 percentage points from December 2021 and is the lowest Yo2Y decline recorded since July last year.

Edinburgh’s iconic Jenners department store and Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries may have changes of use ahead of them, but new analysis from Knight Frank indicates Scotland’s two largest cities are among the most resilient retail centres in the UK.

M&G Real Estate, part of M&G plc’s £65 billion private and alternative assets business, with its property development partner Qmile Group, has pre-let all 390,000 sq ft of Grade A office accommodation at its £350 million Haymarket Edinburgh after a further three deals for 4

Scotland's housing market ended 2021 on a high as the average house price in December reached £213,656.

Investing Women Angels (IWA) has become the first Scottish angel group to achieve a Nasdaq exit following this week’s successful listing of TC Biopharm on the New York-based stock exchange. Motherwell-headquartered TC Biopharm, a clinical stage biotechnology company developing cell therapies i

Cynergy Bank has reached a lending milestone having grown to £3bn by continuing to support SME’s, property entrepreneurs and homeowners. The bank reached the milestone figure at the beginning of 2022 against a backdrop of two years of economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic.

Responsible finance provider Social Investment Scotland (SIS) has bolstered its leadership team with the appointment of Karen McBride as its new head of finance and operations. Ms McBride joins SIS after spending nearly five years at Johnston Carmichael Glasgow where she progressed to audit director

Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) has seen its membership grow by 15% in 2021, with the organisation seeing 12 new members join its ranks. The rise takes the total number of members to 92.

Burness Paull has completed a letting at BAM TCP Atlantic Square Limited’s 2 Atlantic Square, Glasgow, in the heart of the city’s International Financial Services District.