Perth-based housebuilder Stephen has once again been voted a ‘Five Star’ builder by its customers. The family firm, which dates back to 1935, has earned the rating following a rigorous, externally verified customer satisfaction survey backed by industry body Homes for Scotland. The survey is designed to provide buyers with information that will help guide […]
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Food firm Baxters could close its restaurant and retail outlet in Moray with the loss of up to 30 jobs. The Fochabers-based business – famed for its soups and preserves – has a Highland Village visitors centre in the town. Baxters said the coronavirus pandemic had “exacerbated the already challenging trading conditions”. It has begun
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Plans to open a railway station in a Borders village which last saw passenger services more than 50 years ago have been given the go-ahead. Network Rail wants to build the two-platform structure with 70 parking spaces at Reston in Berwickshire. A station opened in the village in 1846 but the last passenger services stopped
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Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland have introduced new home mover house purchase mortgages for borrowers with deposits as low as 10 per cent. The deals will broaden out the banks’ low deposit offering beyond only first-time buyers, to existing homeowners looking to move. New build properties are excluded from the deals and they cannot be used
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Glasgow-based chartered accountants, Wylie & Bisset, say that Finance Secretary Kate Forbes’ first budget has put funding and spending at its forefront, while sidestepping tax hikes. Warning that Scotland’s economic growth will not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024, Ms Forbes confirmed that Scotland had suffered an unprecedented ‘economic shock’, triggering extra borrowing powers. GDP
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The limit on a single payment using contactless technology could rise to £100 – more than double the current limit. The coronavirus pandemic has led to larger amounts spent via contactless payments, either using cards or devices such as smartphones. It has been less than a year since the limit was raised from £30 to
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Eight Scottish stores are among the 44 earmarked for temporary closure by Poundland. The budget retailer will put them into hibernation starting tomorrow. The move comes after an 80% fall in footfall since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The company confirmed that staff affected by the closures will be place on furlough. The Scottish
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