Trap share placing raises £4.3m for Trent licence
Trap Oil, the Aim-quoted explorer that bought Banchory-based Reach Oil & Gas last year for £30 million, has raised £4.3m through a share placing.Cash generated through the placing will be used to...
View ArticleCentrica accord will run to 2013
Centrica and Norway’s Statoil yesterday said they have extended their agreement to work together to develop gas fields in UK and Norwegian waters until June 2013.An initial agreement signed in November...
View ArticleScottish independence: Residents would cease to be British – Miliband
ED MILIBAND has warned that people in Scotland would cease to be British if they vote for Scottish independence and leave the United Kingdom.The Labour leader said it “stands to reason” that Scottish...
View ArticleScottish eagle population in sharp decline
SCOTLAND’s eagle population was at its height 1,500 years ago when the Scots first left Ireland to forge the kingdom of Dalriada in Argyll, according to new research to be published today.But human...
View ArticleDavid Cameron condemns forced marriages
Prime Minister David Cameron has described forced marriage as “little more than slavery”, as the UK government announced plans to make it a criminal offence south of the Border.Parents who force their...
View ArticleInterview: Jeremy Vine, journalist and author of It’s All News to Me
HE’S reduced a prime minister to despair, been shot at, stalked, robbed, attacked with a plank of wood by a neo-Nazi shopkeeper and had chewing gum placed on his chair by a Robert Mugabe aide. There’s...
View ArticleTalisman deal means big lift for EnerMech
EnerMech, the Aberdeen-based engineering group, yesterday announced its largest contract yet in a deal thought to run into tens of millions of pounds.The contract will see the company manage the UK...
View ArticleGeorge Kerevan: European crisis could pay off for Nationalists
IF the SNP grabs the chance to join a new European set-up, it may make folk think again, writes George KerevanEurope in crisis. It is – but it always has been. The history of the post-war project to...
View ArticleIt’s just a virus – keep taking the painkillers, infected Gorgie man told
THE wife of taxi driver has criticised health officials for not alerting all GPs in Edinburgh to the symptoms of Legionnaires’ disease after the first case was confirmed on 31 May. Elayne Fraser said...
View ArticleBusiness in brief: US | Eastern | Johnson Matthey | Network Rail
US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke took the air out of a rally in the price of oil yesterday when he gave no signal of imminent action to help the US economy.Bernanke said the Fed remains ready...
View ArticleNew hope offered to arthritis patients
Clinical trial results described as “striking and exciting” could lead to new treatment options for rheumatoid arthritis (RA).The antibody drug tocilizumab was almost four times more likely to halt...
View ArticleScottish independence: Labour warn of ‘less control over our economy’
Alex Salmond’s plans for independence would leave Scotland with “less control over our economy, not more”, Labour leader Johann Lamont claimed during First Minister’s Questions.Ms Lamont attacked what...
View ArticleEddie Barnes: Searching for the answer to SNP’s plans
LABOUR looks like needing every day until 2014 to fathom a UK-wide answer to SNP plans, writes Eddie Barnes A Leading Labour-supporting commentator took to Twitter yesterday for help on writing his...
View ArticleEdinburgh-based Logan Energy getting ahead after MBO
DIRECTORS at Edinburgh-based fuel cell supplier Logan Energy have led a management buy-out from their American parent company in order to secure second-round funding.Atlanta-based Logan Energy...
View ArticleMelrose shareholders flex their muscles
More than 10 per cent of shareholders in Melrose Resources yesterday opposed the Edinburgh-based oil and gas firm’s executive pay plans.The group, which held its annual meeting yesterday, said 89.2 per...
View ArticleAndy Drane: Creative ideas are the key to boosting church attendance
ACCORDING to a report by the organisation WhyChurch, UK church attendance currently stands at around 6 per cent of the population, down from 11 per cent in 1980. It predicts that by 2020 attendance...
View ArticleEnglish law firm merger partner for Biggart Baillie
The recent run of consolidation in Scotland’s legal sector continued yesterday when Biggart Baillie announced plans to merge with English business law firm DWF, writes Gareth Mackie.The deal, which...
View ArticleJuliet Dunlop: It’s a real and present danger, buying gifts
GIFT-GIVING is a minefield. Weddings and birthdays, Christmas and christenings – they all require a degree of thought and a dollop of cash. Finding something that you like that they’ll like too, is...
View ArticleArgentina oil move is criticised
A FOREIGN Office minister has accused Argentina of “domineering” behaviour ahead of an official visit to mark the 30th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands.MP Jeremy Browne described...
View ArticleLeaders: BBC fails to use our funds fittingly
THE BBC has a set of principles. Its mission is to enrich lives with programmes that “inform, educate and entertain”. Its “vision” is modestly put at becoming “the most creative organisation in the...
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