CO Owners (L) Emma Airley and (R) Sebastian Bacewicz Glasgow’s west end will be home to Scotland’s first specialist Pastelaria, a Portuguese Pastel de Nata bakery this week, as an entrepreneurial couple open up their new shop on Byres Road. Emma Airley and Sebastian Bacewicz will launch Pastéis Lisboa today making up to 1,200 tarts from […]
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Scotland’s leading commercial property company, HFD Group has made two new appointments to its board, with the promotion of Katrina Ovenden (pictured above) and Stuart Teape to legal director and finance director respectively. Katrina has spent over four years as HFD’s in-house solicitor offering strategic legal counsel and, prior to joining the property company, held
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One of Europe’s largest private hotel groups has acquired the Premier Inn at Glasgow’s Charing Cross following the opening of a rival establishment within the city by its previous owner. Manchester-based Britannia Hotels, headed by multi-millionaire Alex Langsam, has purchased the 278-bedroom property off a guide price of £8.5 million. It was put up for
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Between December and March parts of Glasgow were transformed into Gotham City as it was the location for DC’s Batgirl. In a cinematic first it was the only movie to be entirely filmed in Glasgow. Sadly it was confirmed earlier this week that Warner Bros Discovery had cancelled the movie despite already spending $70 million
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The CEO of Scotland’s leading Esports event company is preparing to travel to Birmingham as Team Scotland takes its seat at the Commonwealth Games for the first time in history. James Hood (pictured above), who launched Dundee-based Esports Scotland five years ago, was unveiled as Team Manager for Scotland for the Commonwealth Esports Championships (CEC)
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Diversity and inclusion organisation AFBE-UK Scotland has successfully run its first senior leadership programme to help ethnic minority professionals progress into leadership roles. The virtual programme ran for 10 weeks from April to July and was delivered through a series of sessions aimed at unearthing the barriers to career progression and charting a path into
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Two young entrepreneurs have hailed Glasgow as “the perfect place” to launch a business, after experiencing a flurry of bookings since opening three months ago. Best friends Afton Ferguson, 22, and Nikki Fairful, 25, opened The Haberdashery on Sauchiehall Street in April, and have since been “welcomed with open arms” by members of the events industry and
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Leading full-service Scottish law firm Thorntons has bolstered its senior team by awarding partner status to three legal directors and promoting four associates to legal director, across its Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Cupar offices. Additionally, two senior solicitors have been promoted to associates and three solicitors promoted to senior solicitors in Edinburgh and Arbroath. The
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A team from the University of Glasgow has won a UK Government competition to develop a climate change satellite for launch from the UK. The 10 students designed a satellite to analyse shorelines and coastal vegetation to help scientists and policymakers understand the impact of climate change on coastal regions, as part of the Nanosat
GLASGOW STUDENTS WIN £600,000 DESIGN COMPETITION Read More »
Last term four Scottish schools and 850 pupils have successfully completed the ground-breaking Gen+ programme which is now set to be introduced to thousands more students across the country. The secondary schools that took part in the pilot programme were Barrhead High in East Renfrewshire, Lourdes Secondary in Glasgow, Morgan Academy in Dundee and The
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