Britain's economic growth is likely to have fallen to less than half the record 1.2 per cent pace set in the second quarter after a "worrying" slowdown in the nati

One of Britain's biggest pubs groups with a strong Scottish presence is to create 1,000 jobs for 16- and 17-year-olds in the face of a testing market for school-leavers.

WEIR Group may no longer make much in Scotland, but it still represents one of the country's biggest names in engineering.

LONDON FTSE 100 CLOSE 5,428.15 +57.11

SCOTLAND'S whisky industry yesterday toasted the work being done by the Chinese government to crack down on counterfeit Scotch as London and Beijing signed a fresh intelle

YOUNG drivers are increasingly prepared to stage motor accidents in order to claim on their insurance, according to figures published as insurers warn that such fraud continue

LLOYDS TSB is braced for a possible exodus of current account customers as details of changes to its overdraft charges are sent out. From 2 December customers of the bank, par

SAVERS have been warned against viewing corporate bonds as a panacea for their income woes after advisers raised concerns that many people underestimate the risks of investing

According to a recent Panorama programme, two-thirds of the population do not have a will. Writing a will is not as daunting as it may appear, but it's important to get th

OVER the past few weeks I have read several articles arguing that what investors are currently experiencing is purely temporary - all will return to normal sometime soon, they

SELDOM does a day go by without us hearing about financial bubbles and how a chastened government and its regulators are going to make sure they don't pop up again.

The experience of working in the complaints department of a regional energy supplier when the market was opened up to competition in the Nineties left me with a healthy disreg

Barclays this week followed similar moves from HSBC, Nationwide Building Society and Santander in launching a range of discounted mortgage rates specifically for its existing

Q: I BOUGHT my residential house with an interest-only mortgage with the intention that when I sell my buy-to-let (BTL) properties the gains would be used to pay the c

Lees Foods, based in Coatbridge, is the parent company of Lees of Scotland and the Waverley Bakery. Lees makes tea cakes, the eponymous "snowball" and the macaroon bar

BORROWERS waiting for the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) to rule on their mortgage underpayment complaints have been told they are unlikely to be compensated unless

MOLSON Coors, the brewer of Carling and Caffrey's, is looking to push ahead with sales in Scotland to bring its market share up to the 20 per cent it holds across the UK.

A BANANA glut and rising costs peeled back first-half profits at Fyffes, the tropical fruits distributor revealed yesterday.

The supermarket refrigeration supplier owned by former Celtic director Willie Haughey saw pre-tax profits tumble last year to £3.3 million, down from £4.2m in 2008, due to cha

SHARES in Optos were in sharp focus yesterday after the Dunfermline-based maker of opticians' scanning machines was selected to join a major study into eye diseases.