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200 jobs under threat

Row over work switch as rail depot scheduled to close

Michael Matheson
A rail maintenance depot near Glasgow is scheduled to close with the loss of 200 jobs and work on Scottish trains being switched to England. The Springburn depot carries outRead More

Scottish Budget

Higher earners hit as Mackay rejects Hammond’s tax cut

Derek Mackay delivers budget 12 Dec
Derek Mackay: ‘now not the time to cut tax for high earners’   Finance Secretary Derek Mackay today announced he was freezing income tax bands, confirming that higher earners willRead More

Green vision launched

Letting agent pioneers electric charging points for tenants

Derek Macdonald
Derek MacDonald: ‘driving change’   Scottish letting agent Newton Property is to install electric vehicle charging points in properties it factors as part of a £100,000 initiative. Newton is theRead More

Output falls sharply

5,000 building jobs lost amid Interserve concerns

Completion of the Queensferry Crossing (left) has left a void (pic: Terry Murden)   Trade body the Scottish Building Federation has voiced concerns about the outlook for the construction industryRead More

Scottish Budget

Mackay sticks to tax divergence in pledge to public services

Derek Mackay pictured yesterday with apprentices working on the St James shopping development in Edinburgh (pic: Terry Murden)   Finance Secretary Derek Mackay is expected to resist calls to narrowRead More

21-month low for retailers

Scottish shops face ‘nerve-wracking’ Christmas as sales slump

Multrees Walk, shop, retail, Edinburgh
Retailers are seeing sales slump (pic: Terry Murden)   Shoppers failed to offer the struggling high street any Christmas cheer as new figures showed a slump in sales last month.Read More

Double change at pensions firm

Parry takes Royal London chair as CEO Loney leaves

Phil Loney
Royal London has announced two key management changes with Kevin Parry taking over as chairman and Phil Loney stepping down as chief executive. Mr Parry, pictured far left, will leave theRead More

Pressures weigh on jobs market

Scottish unemployment falls to record low as UK wages rise

Jamie Hepburn
Jamie Hepburn: ‘creating the right economic environment’ (pic: Terry Murden)   Scotland’s unemployment rate fell to a record low of 3.7% over the last quarter, providing some positive news forRead More

Top 100 list

Mallzee named among UK’s fastest-growing firms

Shopping app Mallzee has been named in a new list of Britain’s fastest-growing companies, compiled by independent research agency Beauhurst and SyndicateRoom. It is the only Scottish business that madeRead More

Corbyn biding his time

Labour will put ‘no confidence’ motion only when it can win

Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn: waiting for his moment   Labour said it will put down a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May’s government only when it knows it canRead More