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Day: 26 March 2019

New facility launched

Timberbush sets up Inverness hub for Highland tours

Timberbush
Timberbush: expanding in the north   Coach touring business Timberbush Tours has established a facility in Inverness to cater for tourists looking to explore the Highlands and Islands. The Edinburgh-headquartered companyRead More

Reform demanded

CAMRA calls for rates action to save threatened pubs

Sarah Crawford Camra
Sarah Crawford: ‘many pubs suffer from unfair rates’ (pic: Terry Murden)   Real ale enthusiasts are calling for an end to the way pubs are taxed as part of theRead More

Bigger tech fest

Turing Fest returns with bigger turnout and new format

Brian Corcoran,Turing Festval
Brian Corcoran: ‘an even more expansive range of content’ (pic: Terry Murden)   Turing Fest, the technology conference, is returning to Edinburgh with an ambitious new format and a lineupRead More

Deadline set for Sports Direct

Ashley ordered to ‘put up or shut up’ over Debenhams

Debenhams
Debenhams: wants clarification from Mike Ashley   Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has been issued with a ‘put up or shut up’ order from Debenhams after he indicated that he isRead More

Further uplift in profits

AG Barr paid just £200k in sugar tax after drinks remix

Irn-Bru
40% of the Irn-Bru range is now sugar-free   Irn-Bru manufacturer AG Barr said it had reformulated 99% of its soft drinks so that they are exempt from the soft drinksRead More

Passengers arrive in wrong city

BA investigates as Dusseldorf flight lands in Edinburgh

Edinburgh airport
  Passengers found themselves in Edinburgh by mistake (pic: Terry Murden)   British Airways has launched an inquiry into how one of its scheduled flights from London to Düsseldorf mistakenlyRead More

Which? report

Scots ‘face loss of bank services’ by branch closures

Bank branch closure closed
Banks have stepped up the closure of branches (pic: Terry Murden)   Scotland has lost more than a third of its bank and building society branches in just eight years,Read More

Rise in price of accommodation

Glasgow leads UK growth for cost of a hotel room

GoGlasgow
Glasgow Hotels are seeing price rises   A significant boost to hotel room numbers in Glasgow helped meet surging demand as the cost of staying in the city rocketed overRead More