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Day: August 30, 2019

Qtel plan

Former C&A store to be turned into 112-bed hotel

QTel
A former department store in the heart of Glasgow’s shopping district will be turned into a 112 bedroom hotel under plans lodged with the city council. Manor Property Group, workingRead More

Oversubscribed cash call

MGB Biopharma raises funds to tackle life-threatening illnesses

Miroslav Ravic
Miroslav Ravic: CEO of MGB Biopharma Scottish drugs development firm MGB Biopharma, which is developing drugs to tackle life-threatening illnesses has seen its latest fund-raising exercise oversubscribed. Its lead antibiotic MGB-BP-3 aimsRead More

Europa League

Rangers punished again by UEFA for more sectarian singing

Closed: Empty seats at Ibrox last night (pic: SNS Group) Rangers have been ordered to close a section of Ibrox for their opening Europa League group game against Feyenoord afterRead More

A Scottish judge has refused to order a temporary halt to Boris Johnson’s plan to shut down the Westminster Parliament

A group of 75 parliamentarians sought an interim interdict at the Court of Session ahead of a full hearing. Their request was declined by Lord Doherty, who said he wasRead More

£140m development

Approval for one of Glasgow’s biggest office schemes

Argyle St development will fill a gap site One of the biggest office development projects in Glasgow will go ahead after planners approved a 270,000 sq ft scheme capable ofRead More

Aim to grow portfolio

Croan bolsters Brightsolid’s focus on client engagement

Brightsolid, the Scottish managed hybrid cloud services company, has appointed a client engagement manager to further strengthen the company’s client focus and support sales and client acquisition operations. Danni Croan,Read More

Turing Festival

More US investors drawn to UK’s high growth tech cluster

Tom Butterworth: the talent and ecosystem is here (pic: Terry Murden) US investors are showing a growing appetite for UK technology growth firms, says one of the key backers ofRead More

Shift in energy focus

Parkmead buys farmland in strategic move into renewables

Tom Cross
Tom Cross: shareholding increases Gas explorer and producer Parkmead, which is focused on the UK and Netherlands, is moving into the renewables sector after acquiring Pitreadie Farm, a company owningRead More

Toughest quarter

‘Halloween horror’ warning as factory exports slump

Paul Sheerin
Paul Sheerin: no deal is ‘unthinkable’ (pic: Terry Murden) Scotland’s engineering firms are seeing the biggest slump in exports for three years and an industry leader has pleaded with PrimeRead More

SWA demands trade certainty

Distillers ramp up deliveries overseas to beat Brexit deadline

whisky bottles
Distillers want more clarity on trade deals Whisky distillers have been making early deliveries of stock to overseas buyers to counter any negative impact of a No Deal Brexit. RampingRead More