Withholding tips from staff becomes unlawful as the Tipping Bill achieves Royal Assent, with more than 2 million workers to have their tips protected. Withholding tips from staff becomes unlawful as Tipping Bill achieves Royal Assent.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (May 2nd) sold 17 Prime Cattle. Prime Heifers (17) averaged 286.8p per kg (-11.3p) and sold to 295.0p per kg and £2,057.20 gross.
West of Orkney Windfarm have a series of public consultation events starting 16th May in Thurso, through to 25th May in Stromness. The meetings will include feedback, updates, and an insight into environmental assessments.
People living and working in the Lockerbie area in Scotland are to benefit from significantly improved mobile phone connectivity as the first UK government-funded rural mast upgrade is completed. First UK government-funded phone mast upgrade activated in Lockerbie, Scotland, to give a major 4G mobile coverage boost to the community.
Delivering even more tailored support to tens of thousands of households is at the heart of a major expansion of this year's Fuel Insecurity Fund. The First Minister announced in March that the Fund will be tripled to £30 million this year.
What is inflation? Inflation is a measure of how prices of goods and services are changing in the UK, and it can have a big impact on people's household finances. Each month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes the latest annual inflation rate, which measures the change in the price of regularly purchased items (known as the basket of goods and services) compared with the same time the previous year.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has named two Belize registered companies as promoters of a tax avoidance scheme in the UK. Minerva Services Ltd and Buckingham Wealth Ltd, who share the same official business address in Belmopan, the capital of Belize, were promoting and marketing a tax avoidance scheme known as the Umbrella Remuneration Trust (URT).
A report by the Public Accounts committee of the UK government shows the reduced amount of taxes collected during over the two years (2020-21 and 2021-22). 4000 staff were moved from compliance work to help deal with other work related to the pandemic.
Tackling poverty and inequality is the biggest challenge facing Scotland, First Minister Humza Yousaf will say at today's anti-poverty summit. Led by the First Minister, the summit offers a vital opportunity for the Scottish Government to listen to, and work with key partners, campaigners, cross-party representatives and those with direct experience of poverty, to help inform Scotland's drive to tackle poverty and inequality.
On Thursday 4 May 2023, Members of the Economy and Infrastructure Committee will be asked to approve the establishment of a Short Term Let Control Area for Badenoch and Strathspey (Ward 20). Ward 20 may be the first area for Short Term Rent controls but is probable that other areas will follow so anyone renting property may want to study this report.
Members of The Highland Council's Economy and Infrastructure Committee will consider updated developer contribution rates for education and community facilities when they meet on Thursday. Approval of the report will allow the Council to apply revised developer contribution rates for schools and community facilities in line with up to date construction costs and taking account of the latest evidence on the implications of housing development for schools and other infrastructure.
New data from the home delivery expert ParcelHero shows 10am Monday is the peak time for online shopping. Are we all cyberslacking on our work computers to beat the Monday blues? The home delivery expert ParcelHero says 10am Monday is now the most popular time of the week for online purchases, as we all look to retail therapy to beat the Monday blues.
Members of The Highland Council's Economy and Infrastructure Committee will have the opportunity to discuss the Highland Council's recently submitted response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on Highly Protected Marine Areas when they met on Thursday 4 May 2023. In the response the council has voiced its strong opposition to the HPMA proposals due to concerns over potential significant socio-economic impacts that proposals may result in.
Shop Price annual inflation decelerated to 8.8% in April, down slightly from 8.9% in March. This is above the 3-month average rate of 8.7%.
First Republic Bank has become the third bank to fail in recent months and the giant JPMorgan Chase will assume all of its assets, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The FDIC said the deal avoids the agency having to use its emergency powers and would minimize disruptions for customers.
Keen young flyers from Thurso have been discovering the science of flight in the latest education programme led by the Science Skills Academy (SSA). SSA, the pioneering science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) organisation, is delivering flight simulator sessions across Caithness and Sutherland as part of a new Newton module called ‘Up in the Air with Numbers'.
This latest release from Highland and Islands Enterprise perhaps needs careful reading as it does not mention some of the huge problems facing in the economy facing businesses. Of course it wants to emphasis the positive views but no reference to many empty shops in High Streets.
A quarter of Brits say they are willing to protest if the Government looks to raise the national retirement age, according to new research by pensions expert, Penfold. A survey of 2,000 British workers, commissioned by Penfold, found that over two-thirds (67 per cent) of respondents disagree with the Government's plans to raise the retirement age, with one in four willing to take action and walk out.
Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) has released official statistics reporting statutory debt solutions and company insolvencies in Scotland for the fourth quarter (January to March 2023) of the financial year 2022-23. Scottish Statutory Debt Solutions Statistics for 2022-23 Quarter 4 There were 1,912 personal insolvencies (bankruptcies and protected trust deeds (PTDs)) in Scotland in 2022-23 Q4, 15 (0.8%) more than in the same quarter in the previous financial year (2021-22 Q4).
Winston Churchill, a man of famously expensive habits, believed that income should always be adjusted to meet expenses, and never the other way around. In the words of his biographer, Roy Jenkins, "he decided that when the gap between income and expenditure became uncomfortably wide, the spirited solution must always be to increase income rather than to reduce expenditure." Government finances are, of course, not equivalent to those of a household.
