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Day: 14 July 2020

Recruitment

Consultant McColl joins recruiter Two Rivers

Marion McColl
Marion McColl, an experienced recruitment sector consultant, has joined the team at Glasgow-based recruitment firm, Two Rivers. Ms McColl, whose early career was spent in the international freight and shippingRead More

Turbine plan

Vattenfall unveils more wind farms in ‘green energy hub’

Vattenfall wind farm
More turbines planned for southwest Scotland Vattenfall is exploring two new wind farm projects in south west Scotland that could power 300,000 homes. The 56 wind turbines are now subjectRead More

Film

Bollywood back in the streets of Edinburgh

Film and television shows are finding themselves back on track, and producers are again heading to Edinburgh, writes HAYLEY MURDEN

As I See It

Calm down over ‘power grab’ + rise of the Daily Sturgeon

Terry Murden
Brexit is back with a new sense of urgency + who gains from the daily briefings? asks TERRY MURDEN

Airline deal

Branson coughs up for £1.2bn Virgin Atlantic rescue

Branson and Virgin website
Sir Richard Branson has invested £200m in the rescue package Virgin Atlantic has raised £1.2 billion from shareholders and creditors that will secure its future beyond the coronavirus crisis. ItRead More

Oil and gas

Xergy nets former Dons footballer Michie

Xergy, the oil and gas consultancy behind digital platform, Proteus, has appointed a former Aberdeen Football Club striker to grow sales across the UK. Scott Michie, who played for the DonsRead More

£1m investment

Border breaks into home workers’ snack bar market

Border-Biscuits-ginger-snack-bars
New machinery will produce up to 500 chocolate biscuit bars a minute A sharp increase in snacking among home-working Britons has encouraged Scottish food firm Border Biscuits to make itsRead More

Backing from new fund

Cancer therapy spin-out Macomics raises £3.2m

Elizabeth Roper
Elizabeth Roper: leading the investment Edinburgh University medical spin-out Macomics, has raised £3.2 million in a seed financing round led by transatlantic VC Epidarex Capital, with the Scottish Investment BankRead More

Tuesday Updates

DB Live: Johnston’s; FM’s briefing; GDP; Omega; Arrayjet

Simon-Cotton-of-Johnstons
REFRESH PAGE MANUALLY FOR UPDATES 4.45pm: London close After spending most of the day under water the FTSE 100 managed to eke out a small gain. It closed 3.56 pointsRead More

Telecoms u-turn

Huawei 5G ban delves deep into UK telco network

Huawei
Huawei will be banned from 5G Prime Minister Boris Johnson has banned Huawei from Britain’s 5G network in a move that risks intensifying international tensions with China and disrupting theRead More