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Desirable Residential Property with an Established Income

A most attractive former dairy farm in a Lanarkshire market town has been put up for sale at offers over £445,000. With grounds extending to more than 1.1 acres, the grazing land surrounding Wee Westlinbank Farm in Strathaven was historically used for cattle, but has more recently been used for…

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Scottish Water Newsletter – October 2019 – Renewables & Low Carbon Energy 

Welcome to our first Scottish Water Renewables Newsletter.  We wanted to highlight just some of the exciting examples of what we are doing at over 70 sites around Scotland to deliver our commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2040. In future issues, we will be sharing more examples that…

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Scottish businesses celebrate success with Barclays Entrepreneur Awards

Two Scottish entrepreneurs have come out on top in Barclays Entrepreneur Awards 2019, which celebrates the most innovative, disruptive and socially inspiring businesses across the UK. Following a rigorous judging process, the overall national awards crowned Brie Read, founder of Snag, a size-inclusive tights brand, Start-up Entrepreneur of the Year,…

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Creating a ‘greener’ railway for Scotland

With all the talk of climate change in the news recently, it got us thinking about what we do to reduce carbon emissions and be more energy efficient. Every single person that uses the railway is playing their part in helping to reduce carbon emissions. Train travel is among the…

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MacRoberts named “Diversity Star Performer” at Diversity Awards

MacRoberts has been named as “Diversity Star Performer” at The Herald & GenAnalytics Diversity Awards 2019. The firm received the award in acknowledgement of an outstanding commitment and leadership to harnessing the benefits of a diverse workforce internally and externally, whilst demonstrating an understanding for the importance of diversity within…

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Edinburgh College students Shannon and Sophie out to prove themselves on the world stage

Two Edinburgh College Professional Cookery and Hospitality students are set for a trip of a lifetime as they prepare to represent Europe at a global culinary competition. HNC Hospitality students Shannon McNeil (18) and Sophie Taylor (21) have been selected by the Chefs Scotland in Scotland to compete as Team…

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Tram works to begin in Constitution Street next month

The first phase of work to take trams to Newhaven is scheduled to get under way on Constitution Street in mid-November, following six months of joint work by the Council and contractors to finalise the construction programme and costs for the project. The Trams to Newhaven project team has worked…

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Capital Document Solutions to exhibit at Scottish Procurement conference

Capital Document Solutions, Scotland’s leading independent supplier of office equipment and print devices are exhibiting at Procurex – Scotland’s national procurement conference. The event will take place in the SEC on October 29th where Capital will be showcasing some of their market-leading copy, print, scan and document solution products at…

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BCC and Bibby Financial Services: Uncertainty around Brexit, tariffs and exchange rates holding back UK exports

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) and Bibby Financial Services (BFS) have revealed that uncertainty around Brexit, tariffs and exchange rate volatility are holding back the potential of many UK exporters. The recent survey included 1,140 internationally active UK businesses, and found that general uncertainty around Brexit was considered the…

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Workplace pensions – A good start, but is it enough?

This October marks the seventh anniversary of the start of workplace pension auto-enrolment.  Now that all the process are embedded and contribution phasing is complete, what more can be done to improve your employees’ retirement prospects? With the failure of stakeholder pensions to encourage more people to save more for…

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