Labour is trying to force ever more people into work when AI, recession, and the demise of the jobs best suited to those with disabilities means there are ever fewer jobs available. When will they wake up to reality? .
The Scottish Government will host a major investment event in Edinburgh tomorrow (Monday 17th March) aimed at unlocking new private investment in the country's rapidly growing offshore wind industry. More than 100 stakeholders, including investors and developers, will attend the Global Offshore Wind Investment Forum, to be hosted by First Minister John Swinney.
Low growth, ageing population, rising debt and rising debt interest payments all create a negative spiral affecting UK finances. What is going to happen.
A public-private agreement has been reached to help expand operations and attract new investment at the Port of Montrose. A Scottish Enterprise grant of £3.2 million will support a £7.2 million project to acquire and develop land just under two miles from the port.
Mitigating the two-child limit policy would be an effective way to reduce child poverty, but designing an effective policy is not straightforward. 5.6 million families in Great Britain receive universal credit (UC), the primary benefit supporting the incomes of working-age families (Department for Work & Pensions, 2025).
David Gura, Bloomberg News Anchor and Correspondent and Matina Stevis Gridneff, New York Times Canada Bureau Chief join Nicolle Wallace with the latest impact of Donald Trump's intentional trade war. The impact it has had on our relationships with our former key trading partners and the negative impact it will have on all Americans as price begin to rise across all aspects of the American marketplace.
Donald Trump is perhaps leading the headlines for many cuts in several areas of spending in USA. One of these is the cuts to USAID.
Fraser of Allender looks at the looming cuts to disability benefits. Over the past few weeks, we have heard plenty from the UK Government about changes to working-age disability and incapacity benefits.
It is only four months since Rachel Reeves ‘shocked' Britain by doing what every Chancellor does after an election - jacking up taxes. We have now been told the Government will make the "politically difficult" choice to cut welfare.
Credit unions have been around a long time. Hi-Scot credit union covers the Highland and Islands and it is easy to save or borrow at good rates.
This is a video aimed at Canadians but read the comment by clicking over to Youtube. Even some Americans and Europeans are following the advice.
Bombshell new Government figures show transport & storage sector companies (including logistics, parcels and warehousing) have seen their staffing costs spiral by 35.7% in the last three months - the highest increase of any industry. Increased NI and minimum wage costs, set to kick in this April, will add to the burden, warns the home delivery expert Parcelhero.
The Highland Council has today received confirmation from Scottish Government that it will continue to provide funding to the Wick-Aberdeen Public Service Obligation (PSO) into financial year 2025/26. The funding provided by Scottish Government in 2025/26 will be up to £1 million, as in previous years, and The Highland Council will continue with its own already agreed commitment of £300,000.
Monthly real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have fallen by 0.1% in January 2025, mainly caused by a fall in the production sector, after growth of 0.4% in December 2024. Real GDP is estimated to have grown by 0.2% in the three months to January 2025, compared with the three months to October 2024, mainly because of growth in the services sector.
First Minister John Swinney has officially opened the first phase of a new residential rehabilitation service in Aberdeenshire, which will increase capacity in the North East of Scotland. The 27-bed facility, named Rae House and run by Phoenix Futures, will be followed by a second phase which will consist of 53 units of housing and therapeutic community ‘Dayhab' in Aberdeen City, which in total could provide up to 200 placements a year.
There is well over $200 billion of Russian money in Europe and the UK that could be used to help the Ukraine, but our politicians are reluctant to do that in case countries like China and Saudi Arabia then cease to use European banks. Are they right, or wrong? .
British defence jobs have been boosted and British sailors will be better protected following delivery of the first end-to-end autonomous UK mine hunting vessel, known as ‘Ariadne', which will boost as Royal Navy capabilities. UK's first vessel for detecting and destroying sea mines has been delivered to the Royal Navy.
Further measures to prevent people experiencing the trauma of homelessness will be introduced as part of amendments to the Housing (Scotland) Bill. The Bill currently places a stronger importance on preventing homelessness through ‘ask and act' duties on social landlords and relevant bodies, such as Health Boards, Police Scotland and the Scottish Prison Service, to ask about a person's housing situation as early as they can and act to avoid them becoming homeless wherever possible.
I've been senior partner of a firm, a director of a number of profoundly entrepreneurial companies, a founder of a number of campaigning organisations related to accounting issues, a professor of accounting, and even spent nearly a decade along the way as a contributing editor to AccountingWEB, although the vast majority of the articles that I wrote did not appear under my name. There is, I can assure you, a long story behind that.
More than £6 million will be invested as part of the Accelerated National Innovations Adoption (ANIA) programme to help people with type 2 Diabetes, stroke patients and babies born with a rare genetic condition. A national digital intensive weight management programme will support 3,000 people recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
