Posts Tagged ‘week’

Interest rate split prompts BCC warning

BUSINESS leaders will today appeal to the Bank of England to “reject any thought of tightening policy” ahead of this week’s interest rate decision.

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Scots flights at risk from air fare tax

A POTENTIAL doubling of tax on air fares expected to be announced in this week’s Budget will force airlines to consider raising prices or cutting flights serving Scotland

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Charity worker returned for son

A British charity worker who returned to her home in Jamaica at the height of this week’s troubles said she was desperate to get home to her four-year-old son.

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Scots trailing UK recovery by 3 months

ECONOMISTS believe it is “touch and go” whether Scotland has exited recession amid fears that figures due out this week will show the Scottish economy at least three m

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Forth to meet Northstream on back of ‘encouraging’…

FORTH Ports will meet bid consortium Northstream this week following what chief executive Charles Hammond claimed was an “encouraging” recovery in the value of its la

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