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Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has appointed Joanna Peteranna as interim area manager for the Outer Hebrides. Ms Peteranna takes over from Rachel Mackenzie who leaves HIE on 17 September to become the finance director of MG Alba after eight years with the organisation.

After eighteen torrid months for Scottish business, where jobs and livelihoods have hung in the balance, CBI Scotland is calling on the SNP to use the forthcoming Programme for Government to make good on their election promise to "put the economy first".

UK Finance is urging the British public to donate the spare change they have accumulated during the pandemic to charity. Figures from UK Finance show that the British public is sitting on piles of loose change worth an estimated £50 million. Along with the Charities Aid Foundation, UK Finance

Scottish footfall decreased by 21.2% in August, a 5.9 percentage point increase from July, according to the latest Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and Sensormatic IQ Footfall Monitor.

Tens of thousands of rural and island homes and businesses in Scotland are set to access the UK’s fastest and most reliable broadband. An investment of £384 million by the Scottish Government through the Reaching 100% programme (R100) will see building of full fibre connec

Fishing businesses and marine organisations in Scotland have been awarded funding to mitigate the impacts of Brexit and help the sector recover from effects of COVID-19. The financial support of almost £800,000 – part of the £14 million Marine Fund Scotland - was announced by rural

Three French police officers have been arrested after crashing their car when one of them jokingly used a Taser on the driver. The officers were finishing their shift and driving back from Tourcoing to nearby Roubaix, both near the border with Belgium, at the time.

Not-for-profit lender DSL Business Finance Ltd had a record year in 2020-21, providing funding of over £5.6 million to small and medium-sized businesses and social enterprises in Scotland, up from £4.5m in 2019. The Glasgow-headquartered alternative finance provider continued to assist e

RiboNucleic Acid (RNA) sequencing specialist Wobble Genomics has raised a £1.2 million investment round led by Eos Advisory. Wobble is a spin-out from the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute, was founded by CEO Richard Kuo in April 2021, and has developed a range of hardware and s

Ian McMonagle, a Chartered Tax Adviser who sits on the Scottish Committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, and taxation director at Russell & Russell, business advisers, details the intricacies of the tax system and why most conversations start with ‘it depends’. Whenever anyo

abrdn, the fund management firm formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen, is close to securing a new office space in London, complete with improved facilities and reduced floor space to align with its new brand and blended working strategy. The firm is in advanced negotiations to rent space on

Thomas Moore, senior investment director at Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), shares his views on why UK equities are back in favour. It’s now a little over five years since the Brexit referendum and over that period UK equities have found themselves decidedly unloved on account of a n

Ayrshire-based Microtech Group, an award-winning IT service specialist which supports NHS Scotland and a raft of blue-chip clients, has future-proofed its legacy by adopting employee ownership. Businessman Chris McMail turned down multimillion-pound offers for his business by opting to reward the em

Barratt Developments has today reported a 65.1% jump in profit before tax of £812.2 million for the year ending 30 June 2021 as the housebuilder benefited from the rebound in demand for homes from the pandemic. In its full year results, the developer said it generated revenue up 40% to £

Scotgold Resources, the gold exploration and production company focused on Scotland has announced that it produced profitable gold and silver for the first time in its history last month. In its latest production and corporate update, the firm announced "significant improvements" in production at it