Covid-19

Edinburgh-based startup Trickle has secured a series of business wins and made three new hires in line with its increased business activity. A number of NHS regional boards in Scotland including NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Forth Valley have now signed up to Trickle's wellbeing, e

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic is already having a significant impact across the audit profession and public practice leaders according to the latest research from ACCA. The COVID-19 global survey: inside business, impacts and response report revealed that a significant 53%&nb

The lockdown measures implemented in the UK to stem the spread of coronavirus have stalled £82 billion of home sales, according to Zoopla.

Allied Irish Bank has been approved for accreditation by the British Business Bank as a new lender for the government-backed Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) to provide term loans. Over the last six weeks, Allied Irish Bank teams have experienced a significant surge in customer

Up to 30,000 jobs could be lost in the oil and gas industry as the sector faces a bleak future, according to a new report from Oil and Gas UK (OGUK).

UK lenders have given over 1.6 million mortgage payment holidays as of Friday 24 April 2020 to support customers facing financial difficulties due to coronavirus, UK Finance has revealed.

Members of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) have announced that they will voluntarily remove all TV and radio product advertising during the COVID-19 lockdown as addiction experts describe this as "an unprecedented step in unprecedented times". Michael Dugher, BGC chief executive has c

The small Italian town of Castellino del Biferno has started printing its own currency to help businesses and locals during the coronavirus pandemic. The town is located in the Molise region of southern Italy with a tiny population of just 550 residents.

Some house buyers could miss out on being able to claim a refund for a property tax charge if they have been unable to sell their old home because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has said. The second home charge, or Additional Dwelling Supplement (ADS), is a 4

The COVID-19 small business and self-catering grant scheme, set up to help companies stay in business during the coronavirus crisis, has now paid out £26.89 million to 2341 Highland businesses. The latest figures show that grants were given to 1341 businesses, to the value of £14.8m, wit

A consortium of Scottish businesses is to lodge a judicial review of the Scottish Government’s COVID-19 Business Grant Scheme amid increasing concerns that a failure to match Westminster’s economic support will lead to the demise of a string of retail and hospitality chains.

Fergus Ewing, tourism secretary for Scotland, has written to the UK Government calling for it to amend its job retention scheme to help tourism businesses survive the economic impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In a letter to Nigel Huddleston, minister for sport, tourism and heritage,&nb

The coronavirus crisis is causing household savings to rise at a rapid pace. If the reductions in spending persist for the entirety of the second quarter, Cebr expects that excess household savings of around £23 billion to accumulate.

A couple has been fined after they drove over 250 miles from their home in London to have a day out in Cornwall.

Michelle Elliot and Stuart Robb of Leonard Curtis Business Rescue & Recovery have been appointed as joint administrators of Scotland's largest theme park M&Ds. Operator M&D (Leisure) Ltd contacted its 165 staff yesterday informing them they were being made redundant with immediate e