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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has led international action to stop illegal finfluencers putting consumers' money at risk. 

Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce (AGCC) has called for economic growth to become the top priority for both the UK and Scottish governments and urged ministers to seize the £17.5 billion North Sea investment opportunity currently on the table.

A man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 13-and-a-half years for the religiously aggravated rape and assault of a Sikh woman in her home in Walsall. John Ashby, 32, of no fixed address, was sentenced on Friday at Birmingham Crown Court. He pleaded guilty on the second day of his trial,

A petition by a Palestinian mother and son asserting that the Foreign Secretary had unlawfully delayed issuing a decision on their request for consular assistance to leave Gaza to travel to Jordan as part of a process to join family in the UK has been refused by the Outer House of the Court of Sessi

A gamekeeper who clubbed a protected bird of prey to death has been sentenced. Hidden camera footage showed Russell Mason, 49, striking the goshawk with a cosh six times after it had been caught inside a crow cage trap on Cochrage Moor, Perthshire.

Two extraordinary magnums of Château Lafite Rothschild 1870, sourced from the historic cellars of Glamis Castle broke the world record twice in rapid succession at Sotheby's, selling for $106,250 (c. £78,560) and $200,000 (c. £147,885) respectively.

The Contract (Formation and Remedies) (Scotland) Act 2026 received royal assent on 14 April. It marks a deliberate step toward modernising Scots contract law by making it clearer, more accessible and better aligned with how business is carried out in practice, writes Emma Wills. The Scots contract l

A 15-year-old girl has admitted carrying out a knife attack on a 12-year-old pupil at an Aberdeen school. The teenager, who cannot be identified, pleaded guilty at Aberdeen Sheriff Court to assault to the danger of life following the incident at Hazlehead Academy on 24 April last year. She was 14 at

A man who described himself as the ruler of a self-proclaimed African “kingdom” and spent months living in woodland in the Borders has been deported to Ghana. Kofi Offeh, who styled himself as King Atehene of the so-called Kingdom of Kubala, was arrested after immigration enforcement off

Bad debt and late payment are hammering Scottish SMEs' cashflow and profitability, according to new data from Bibby Financial Services (BFS). BFS’s latest SME Confidence Tracker revealed that 39 per cent of Scottish SMEs, equating to around 139,000 businesses, experienced bad debt in the past

UK taxpayers have handed over £938.8 billion in tax in 2024/25, a 9.3 per cent rise on the previous year, according to HMRC's annual bulletin, as frozen thresholds and rising asset values are quietly eroding household wealth.

Lord Advocate v North British Railway Co (1894) 2 SLT 71 The soundly educational 21st-Century Bar Conference last December 5th heard Lord President Pentland forecast that “litigation about environmental issues will become a greater feature of our forum”.

Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. A War That Targets Women: Sudan’s Silent Crisis

The Sheriff Appeal Court has held that there is no competence for an appeal against a sheriff’s refusal to sign a warrant for an initial writ after a man attempted to challenge the refusal of his case against his neighbour, after finding that the refusal could not constitute a final judgment i