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New measures to limit the impact of COVID-19 on the business community in Scotland have been announced by finance secretary Kate Forbes.

Mates in Mind has appointed Nicola Hodkinson, business services director at Seddon, as a trustee board member. Mates in Mind is a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace.

An appeal has been lodged into Glasgow City Council’s decision to reject plans for 34 apartments on vacant ground at Shawlands Bowling Club.

The former office of General Insurance Corporation Ltd in Aberdeen, which has lain vacant for three decades, is to be transformed into a block of three flats. 

A homeowner who was ordered to reduce the height of rows of trees along a boundary wall within the grounds of his property after his neighbours complained that they were overshadowing their garden has lost a legal challenge against a decision.

Edinburgh-based property developer Whiteburn is celebrating after being shortlisted as a finalist in two categories of the Scottish Home Awards 2020.

Fenestration company Sidey is now Energy Saving Trust endorsed, reinforcing the thermal efficiency levels of its windows and further adding to its growing list of impressive accreditations.

A builder who found papers in a skip that included sketches Sir Paul McCartney commissioned for his psychedelic piano could be in for a five-figure windfall.

Plans to build a major new student accommodation scheme in Edinburgh on a vacant site on Gorgie Road, next to the Water of Leith, have been given the go-ahead.

Emtec Building Services has marked a significant contribution to its planned growth with the opening of a new Dundee office.

A 70-bedroom care home will be built on the grounds of the Liff Hospital in Dundee under newly lodged plans.

The Isle of Skye’s oldest working distillery has submitted plans for a new cafe and expanded visitor centre.

A new primary school is to be built in Inverness after councillors on Highland Council's south planning applications committee granted full planning permission.

Assetz Capital has secured funding from British Business Investments (BBI), a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, to help boost UK house building projects. The £15m commitment from British Business Investments will support in excess of £100m of new lending to smaller busi

Councillors have voted to delay a decision into plans for a major housing development in Stanley so the proposal can be determined alongside another application.