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YOUNG WOMAN MANAGES TO BALANCE BEING A NURSE & RUNNING A TAKEAWAY

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A Scottish takeaway owner has discussed how she became one of the country’s youngest entrepreneurs after leaving school. Rebecca Cheuk, 21, from Buckhaven, Fife, opened quirky fast food eatery, while juggling her job as a nursing auxiliary at Victoria Hospital. She used thousands of pounds that she had saved up and invested it into opening her self-named takeaway, based […]

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FINTECH FESTIVAL CELEBRATES UK WIDE INNOVATION

SOFTWARE START UP LOOKS TO REACH NEW HEIGHTS WITH NEW COVID PLATFORM

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Left to Right: Elaine Taylor, Jack Francis, Zoë Strong, and Jack Fisher of Pogo Studio Edinburgh-based software-development company Pogo Studio’s Long Covid technology platform is set for rollout across NHS Lothian following a pilot phase, with a mobile app to launch within weeks The firm says its Long Covid digital pathway, which involves GPs onboarding

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SALON OWNERS RECEIVE THEIR OBE

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(L) Alan Stewart & (R) Linda Stewart Alan and Linda Stewart, Co-Owners of Scotland’s largest salon group and multi award winners, Rainbow Room International, were invited to an investiture ceremony held at The Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, whereby they received their OBE Award for Services to Hairdressing from Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal.

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SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT APPOINTS ITS FIRST CHIEF ENTREPRENEUR

EDINBURGH STUDENT LAUNCHES NEW FOOD VENTURE

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Kael Begbie (pictured above) has been announced as the inaugural winner of Edinburgh Napier University’s Appin Entrepreneurship Award for his plans to launch a new food business . As well as the accolade, he has received £2,000 after coming out ahead in the competition held at the university’s Bright Red Triangle. Mr Begbie, who will this week

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GLOBAL TECH FIRM REVEALS AMBITIONS FOR SCOTLAND

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Blis, a global programmatic advertising company headquartered in London, will further develop its presence in Scotland following support from Scottish Enterprise. Blis is an audience-first platform that does not rely on personal data. It layers its location data on hundreds of other powerful data signals, all aggregated and anonymised, to better understand what people do, their

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TWO YOUNG ABERDONIANS MAKE A CAREER IN FINANCIAL ADVICE

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Martin Welsh and Kieran Taylor are now the proud owners of Aberdeen-based Welsh & Taylor Wealth, a partner practice of St. James’s Place, with several of their former colleagues from the oil and gas industry among their most loyal clients. Both are alumni of the St. James’s Place Financial Adviser Academy and are proving how

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WORK SURF APP SECURES NEW INVESTORS

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Swurf, the innovative Scotland based app that connects remote workers with welcoming spaces and hosts, has secured significant funding from two investors. Gareth Williams, co-founder of the internationally successful Skyscanner travel search engine business, and Anna Lagerqvist Christopherson, co-founder of the award-winning Boda Bar Group have put funding into Swurf to support its ongoing growth.

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