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Day: November 23, 2018

New hope for Waspi campaign

Ombudsman may seek inquiry into women’s pensions

Waspi
Women born in the 1950s are campaigning against changes to state pensions   An investigation into changes to women’s state pensions may be launched before the end of the yearRead More

Policy count grows

Investment sees Sure Thing! report fourth year of loss

Brendan Devine
Sure Thing! Insurance Services recorded another operating loss and a fall in revenue as it continued to invest in growing the business.  The company, based at Eurocentral in Lanarkshire, sawRead More

Addition to team

Cairns takes CMO role at Lending Crowd

Darren Cairns
LendingCrowd, Scotland’s only fintech lending platform, has appointed Darren Cairns as the company’s chief marketing officer. He joins the Edinburgh-based business from financial provider Neyber in London and has spentRead More

Recruits at visitor centre

Four new faces boost team at Dalkeith Country Park

Dalkeith Country Park appointments
New faces: (L-R): Douglas Campbell, Alison Burke, Nicola Campbell and Dizzy White (contributed)   Dalkeith Country Park has added four new faces, a park supervisor, wedding and events coordinator, project managerRead More

Previously known as The Dogs

Venue reopens as The Perch after £120,000 facelift

Daniel McNally (left) and brother Finbarr are the new owners of The Perch restaurant on Hanover Street (pic: Terry Murden, DB Media Services)   Edinburgh restaurant The Dogs, a popularRead More

As I See It

Hostility to the Tories thwarts Sturgeon’s Brexit hopes

Nicola Sturgeon pensive
Nicola Sturgeon’s unbridled animosity to Scottish Tories is proving costly in her Brexit campaign , writes BRIAN MONTEITH

University deal

Kier lands £9.7m contract for Wolfson building

Wolfson Building
How it will look: the building will house the university’s biomedical engineering department   Kier Construction Scotland has secured a £9.7m contract for the redevelopment of the six-storey Wolfson buildingRead More