More tenants for BioQuarter site
THE “incubator” centre set up for small businesses at the Edinburgh BioQuarter science park is now 40 per cent full after signing up a further two tenants.Swedish healthcare firm Mölnlycke and stem...
View ArticleEmma Cowing: It’s Christmas, holiday adverts are coming
I DON’T know about you, but I’m not ready for Christmas. By which I don’t mean that I haven’t got round to thinking about what sort of Cognac to buy Great-Aunt Grizelda yet, or that I can’t remember...
View ArticleFarmers’ markets are facing welcome challenges
As EVERY retailer knows, the past four years has been pretty tough with everyone guarding the contents of their purses in the recession. Those taking stalls at farmers’ markets have not escaped this...
View ArticleRenewables ‘to provide half of Scotland’s electricity by 2015’
HALF of Scotland’s entire electricity needs must now be generated through green energy by 2015, the First Minister has announced.The ambitious new target is the latest set by the SNP government in its...
View ArticleAllan Massie: Many questions, but must we answer them all?
THE devil’s in the detail but the SNP’s mistake has been to get bogged down in it instead of appealing to voters on an emotional level, writes Allan MassieThroughout its decades-long march towards the...
View ArticleMarston’s plans for five pubs a year in Scotland
PUB operator Marston’s is unveiling plans to build up to ten outlets in Scotland next year as the firm makes its first move north of the Border.The company, which owns more than 2,000 pubs in England...
View ArticleEddie Barnes: Pro-UK lobby’s refusal to discuss independent Scotland could...
IT is beginning to sound like a familiar phrase. Up at Faslane on Monday, Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond was asked about the future of Trident if Scotland decides to vote for independence in 2014....
View ArticleMarkets: Sandy fails to blow away insurers
INSURANCE stocks shrugged off a second day of disruption caused by Hurricane Sandy to post gains yesterday after analysts at UBS unveiled a raft of upgrades across the sector.The review came ahead of...
View ArticleComment: Aggreko could be the bright spark after Sandy
EARLY estimates put the cost of insured losses from Hurricane Sandy in excess of $20 billion (£12.4bn). The final tally is almost guesswork, but the job of getting back to work begins today.Wall Street...
View ArticleSimon Pia: Taxing issue of property
POLITICIANS must begin to address the thorny problem of resolving an unfair valuation system that has shackled council spending on front-lines services, writes Simon PiaSome would call it political...
View ArticleRetailers can look forward to Christmas as sales rise
RETAILERS enjoyed a better October than forecast, according to figures released yesterday by the CBI, hinting that the economic recovery may be gathering pace.Analysts said that falling inflation and...
View ArticleChristmas hi-tech sales should boost Wolfson
WOLFSON chief executive Mike Hickey believes the Edinburgh-based chip maker is “in with a shout” of making an underlying profit this year thanks to high demand for smartphones and tablet computers in...
View ArticleLeaders: Missed opportunity for Salmond to tackle EU row
FIRST ministers are busy people. That is a truism. So when Alex Salmond absented himself from the Holyrood debate yesterday about his conduct in the European Union legal advice saga he did, of course,...
View ArticlePaper maker seals £7.5m bank deal
EMPLOYEE-OWNED paper maker Tullis Russell Group has received a £7.5 million refinancing package over three years from Lloyds Bank.The Fife-based firm said the funding would be used to “drive its global...
View ArticleFrom the archives: Scots miners strike, 31 October, 1950
ALMOST 2,500 day shift miners employed at six central Scotland collieries came out on strike yesterday, an indication of their dissatisfaction with the recent wage increase awards made to lower-paid...
View ArticleEnlightenment dawns over Adam Smith’s home as glass box extension scrapped
A CONTROVERSIAL “glass-box” extension to the historic Edinburgh home of Adam Smith is to be dropped under fresh plans to bring the building into public use.Panmure House, where the celebrated economist...
View ArticleA glimpse of heaven: The story of Michaelangelo’s masterpiece, the ceiling of...
FIVE hundred years ago today Pope Julius II saw for the first time the completion of his greatest inspiration, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by the artist Michelangelo. Stephen McGinty looks at...
View ArticleSuperstorm Sandy: Election could be delayed as campaign blown off course
White House rivals Barack Obama and Mitt Romney suspended campaigning yesterday to concentrate on rescue and relief efforts from superstorm Sandy, as leaders in several states began mulling an...
View ArticleDisney buys Star Wars studio in £2.5bn swoop
Disney is to pay $4.05 billion (£2.5bn) to buy Lucasfilm, the production company behind Star Wars, from its chairman and founder, George Lucas. It’s also making a seventh movie in the Star Wars series,...
View ArticleUS deal hurts Standard
Standard Chartered has seen its profits for the first nine months of the year dented by a settlement with US authorities over alleged sanction violations.The bank agreed in August to pay $340 million...
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