Cammiade ends 35-year Johnston Press career
Johnston Press, publisher of The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and Edinburgh Evening News, yesterday announced that chief operating officer Danny Cammiade is to leave the company. Cammiade, an executive...
View ArticleCameron’s lobbying helps keep City in the forefront of Europe
A TOP City figure has applauded the UK government’s “considerable success” in keeping Britain at the heart of EU financial decision-making at this week’s summit.Chris Cummings, chief executive of...
View ArticleShell admits to mulling BP bid
OIL giant Shell considered making a bid for rival BP in the past two years, according to an interview in today’s issue of German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.Shell chief executive Peter...
View ArticleMoss Bros gets boost from weddings delayed by Olympics
Menswear specialist Moss Bros is due to expand its online offering next year after bouncing back from a slow patch during the London Olympics.Demand was affected during the first half of the year as...
View ArticleViral disease needs action
ALMOST since it first made an appearance in the UK, the effects of Schmallenberg disease, which can produce malformed lambs from infected ewes, has been played down.Experts considered that infected...
View ArticleMilk prices still failing to reflect costs
Despite high-profile campaigns earlier this year, milk producers are still not receiving prices that cover their costs of production and there needs to be an immediate increase in the money they get...
View ArticlePutting something aside for that rainy day is on the rise
BRITONS are piling more money into rainy day funds in a bid to shore up their finances even as new evidence emerges of government policies wiping out savings incomes.Savings levels have risen over the...
View ArticlePackage deals with annual statements
BANK customers taking out packaged accounts are to receive annual statements outlining their suitability for the products, under new rules drawn up by the City regulator.The accounts, which charge a...
View ArticleGoogle tightens rules on pay-day lenders
PAY-DAY lenders were dealt a blow yesterday as web search engine Google laid down new rules on the way they advertise online.Firms advertising through Google will now have to meet strict new terms and...
View ArticleInvestors need to beware the boiler room scammers
CARBON credit investments aren’t the only schemes being promoted by unscrupulous firms aiming to catch investors unawares. Some carbon credit scams are operated by the same firms behind notorious...
View ArticleJeff Salway: Be prepared for a flood of regulatory keepers turning into poachers
There was much foaming at the mouth in outrage and indignation at the news that Hector Sants is joining Barclays.You can understand why. Sants is the former chief executive of the Financial Services...
View ArticleCon artists open a new criminal front with scams based around carbon credits
VICTIMS of the UK’s fastest growing investment scam are being left heavily out of pocket as fraudsters shift their attention from land banking and “boiler room” schemes. Investors have been warned to...
View ArticleCash Q&A: Saving for retirement
Q. I am only 29 but I keep being told that I need to start saving for the future and my retirement.I assumed that this would be done with a pension but a friend reckons that an individual savings...
View ArticleThe top ten ways to plan for retirement
WHEN final salary schemes were plentiful and the workforce was static, the question of “when will I retire?” never cropped up. But with final salary schemes closing down, pension incomes under pressure...
View ArticleHoming in on cash
THE home has been the answer to many a Scot’s prayers over the past couple of cash-strapped years, proving a fresh source of income where all others have long-since dried up.From renting out a spare...
View ArticleKeep an eye on the US, as its spendthrift ways could yet decide whether our...
RECENT years have underlined the veracity of the classic market mantra that “if the US sneezes the rest of the world gets a cold”When Standard & Poor’s downgraded US debt last year we all saw the...
View ArticleConsumer watch: Vouchers are handy, but sometimes not very safe
ANNUAL sales of high street gift cards in the UK totalled around £2billion last year, and, with corporate incentive sales, and further spending by consumers on voucher sites, independent retailers and...
View ArticleAbsent Scottish Gas engineers left one ill customer boiling over
NO-ONE likes a cold house – but it is far worse if you’re ill. This week Helpdesk tackled Scottish Gas about a customer with severe asthma who had been having boiler troubles.Q. I called Scottish Gas...
View ArticleA spa with Caledonian chic that was shipped from Paris
YOU probably aren’t aware of it – but Scotland now has the only spa being run by the French cosmetic and perfume giant Guerlain.The new spa, part of the £24million refurbishment of the Caledonian...
View ArticleAre you ready for the road?
LOTS of us are planning long-distance drives to visit friends and family over Christmas and New Year. But with freezing conditions and low visibility at this time of the year it is more important than...
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