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Scot bows out

Neil quits BBC to launch rival 24-hour news channel

Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil: ‘heavy heart‘ Broadcaster Andrew Neil is leaving the BBC after 25 years to join a new 24-hour news channel. GB News aims to start broadcasting early next yearRead More

Support for buyers

First Home Fund extension ‘will boost confidence’

Nicola Barclay 1
Nicola Barclay: ‘crucial decision’ (pic: Terry Murden) Home builders have expressed relief at today’s Scottish Government announcement that its highly successful First Home Fund is to be extended for aRead More

Support for growth firms

SMEs urged to apply for new Michelin funding

Brian Cairns of Michelin Development
Brian Cairns: firms should come forward (pic: contributed) Michelin Development is urging businesses to apply for newly-available funding to help underpin their growth plans. SMEs in the Dundee, Tayside andRead More

Young keen on enterprise

Surge in ‘kitchen table startups’ during lockdown

Startups are thriving according to research Lockdown has prompted a new wave of startups, one in five Britons (19%) becoming, or planning to set up in business. Of those whoRead More

Five-day event

Scottish International Week to embrace global ambitions

Russell Dalgleish and Christine Esson
SBN’s Russell Dalgleish and Christine Esson (pic: Terry Murden) More than 500 delegates from around the world have signed up for the fourth annual Scottish International Week (#SIW20) which takesRead More

As curfew kicks in...

One in three will socialise at home with friends

Cockburn Street Edinburgh pubs
Pubs now have to shut at 10pm (pic: Terry Murden) A third of adults say they will cut down on time spent in pubs and restaurants and instead will inviteRead More

Publication on market

Scottish Woman magazine put up for sale

Scottish Woman
Scottish Woman magazine has been put for sale with an asking price of £50,000. It began trading in 2003 and has a paid-for readership of 24,000 across Scotland. It isRead More

Converge Awards

Clean sweep for female-led spin-outs in Converge final

Genevieve Patenaude
Genevieve Patenaude: ‘This will allow us to fast track our vision’ For the first time in the 10 year existence of the Converge Awards, female entrepreneurs have emerged as winnersRead More

Friday Update

DB Live: Car output falls; borrowing rises; Wizz Air outlook

Car-manufacturing-SMMT
4.30pm: London close Having spent much of the session under water, the FTSE 100 staged a steady rally to close in positive territory at 5,842.67 +19.89 (0.34%). 3pm: Funding support Michelin DevelopmentRead More

Evans, the outsider who battled for justice

Steve Sampson
The death of Harold Evans marks the passing of an era in newspapers, says STEVE SAMPSON