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UK inflation has soared to a 40-year high, piling pressure on the Tory administration to act fast to help struggling households amid a bruta...

BY and large, set-piece speeches from Presidents of Chambers of Commerce are not on my preferred reading list.

SCOTLAND’S unemployment rate has fallen to the lowest level on record, new figures show.

ONLY an independent Scotland with its own central bank and currency can both humanely and efficiently tackle the ongoing cost-of-living cris...

PROMINENT Scottish businessman Sir Angus Grossart CBE has died aged 85 after a short illness.

A SCOTTISH publisher has taken aim at Brexit after seeing his business hit with spiralling costs and dwindling sales.

BORIS Johnson has shrugged off suggestions he’s out of touch with the British people after refusing to say how much he thinks a pack of napp...

BORIS Johnson has signalled he could cave in to opposition demands for a windfall tax on energy companies to help tackle the cost of living...

A GRADUAL slowdown in the housing market in Scotland is likely as the cost-of-living crisis bites, a report has warned.

THE first of 30 new convenience stores, Eddy’s Food Station, opened yesterday creating 14 new jobs in Alloa, with a further 500 roles across...

THIS week Prince Charles, with riband stars and tinsel show, announced that his mother’s Government would not attempt to cure the cost of li...

NORTHERN Ireland’s economy is outperforming the UK’s because of its special relationship with the EU – demonstrating how Scotland is “paying...

I HAVE a friend who is raging at SSE Energy Services. Not big news, I hear you say – the entire country is flaming about their power bills a...

THE number of houses built in Scotland fell by a third in one year, to the lowest total for eight years – with restrictions imposed in the w...

THE boss of Scottish Power has called on the UK Government to support households facing soaring energy bills in a stark warning that million...

SCOTLAND was among three areas of the UK which saw the strongest recovery last year in response to the challenges of the pandemic and Brexit...

DURING my recent time in Ukraine one date seemed to occupy the minds of many people I spoke with while in the country. That date was May 9,...

NEWS of Finance Secretary Kate Forbes’s recent fact-finding visit to Scandinavia reaffirms Scotland’s interest in our Nordic neighbours’ blu...

THERE has been much talk in recent years about a “culture war” in Britain, allegedly fought between two political and social factions: metro...

THE rocketing cost of fertiliser is going to have a far more severe effect on food prices than the loss of exports from Ukraine and Russia,...

"IN your opinion, how will independence affect the Scottish economy?”

AGROWING movement of businesses, policy makers and citizens are calling for our economy to be redesigned so that it serves the needs of peop...

UK interest rates have been raised amid warnings the economy​ will go into reverse and that inflation will peak at more than 10%.

TRIBUTES have poured in after James Withers, the chief executive of Scotland Food and Drink, announced he will be stepping down.

RISHI Sunak has come under pressure from a clan of top retailers to cut business rates for shops with suggestions funding could be raised fr...