The owner of an independent boutique in Aberdeen – and a former high-end fashion buyer at Jenners in Edinburgh – has unveiled a rebrand and seen a double-digit exceeding of second-year turnover targets.
Bravo Wales! Those with Alzheimer’s, dementia, strokes and more, may be due £1,000s of council tax rebates if they live in Wales. People living elsewhere in the UK are being left in the lurch. Yet this isn’t the only hidden council tax saving. There are 100,000s across Britain paying far more than they need to.
I have been coming to Engage Invest Exploit (EIE), the technology investor showcase that takes place in Edinburgh every year, since the very beginning, when it was a small event with only around 150 people in a hall. It’s now so popular that people come from all over the world to attend. There is a reason I come back each year – everything about the event is extremely well done, especially the way they coach the companies.
Livingston Football club has become the latest sports team to announce a sponsorship tie up with a vaping firm - despite calls for sports to ditch associations with “vice” products such as alcohol and vaping.
An Edinburgh surveyor who broke the record for the longest single occupation of Rockall, a North Atlantic islet 230 miles west of the Scottish mainland, is to return to the site of his achievement as a guide.
Interior fit-out specialist Linear Projects has bagged a string of contracts this year totalling more than £23 million across Scotland and the north of England.
Talk to any business leader about recruitment and they will tell you how hard it is to find the right people. According to figures from the Open University’s 2018 business barometer, 86 per cent of senior business leaders in Scotland reported difficulties in finding staff with the required skills.
Climate change activists like the members of Extinction Rebellion are part of our capitalist system, which provides the best way to save the planet from the perils of climate change, writes Bill Jamieson.
