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- SE staff to get GBP3 million car perk compensation Jobs quango
- SCOTLAND'S business quango is to splash out GBP3 million of public money to compensate senior staff for losing a free car perk.Bosses at Scottish Enterprise will pocket lump sums of up to GBP16,000 to soften the blow for having their transport subsidy withdrawn. They will also be entitled...
- Research articles 2009-03-01
- Scots firms failing the online test
- SCOTTISH companies have failed to make progress in online trading over the past five years, according to the head of the tech industry's association. Polly Purvis, executive director of ScotlandIS, said that it was "hugely disappointing" that no Scottish companies were listed in the top 50 most popular...
- Research articles 2009-03-01
- RIVER CITY REBORN A SOON-TO-BE-ANNOUNCED PLAN PROMISES TO GIVE
- THESE are tense times at Tayside House, the unloved concrete tower block that is headquarters to Dundee City Council. Council leaders are waiting to hear whether Scottish Enterprise will commit the GBP30 million-plus to the city's waterfront regeneration project that will allow the vital next phase of work to go...
- Research articles 2009-02-08
- Government scheme to buy media coverage set to spread its reach
- A CONTROVERSIAL marketing scheme in which the Scottish government pays newspapers and radio stations to produce content on social topics may be extended to a range of other quangos and public bodies. Roger Williams, the Scottish government's head of marketing, said the scheme - which has previously only...
- Research articles 2008-12-14
- Anger over GBP10,000 grant for convicted drug dealer's luxury yacht
- SCOTLAND's jobs quango is under pressure to explain why it gave GBP10,000 of public money to a luxury yacht business run by a convicted drug dealer. Clyde Executive Charters CEC secured the grant from Scottish Enterprise Glasgow weeks after it was formed this year. CEC is...
- Research articles 2008-12-07
- Edinburgh start-up triumphs with great balls of light Unique
- AN Edinburgh University spinout, founded by a 28-year-old former student in the music technology department, has achieved a global showcase by providing giant high-tech video-projection spheres to the rock band Coldplay. The band's Viva La Vida world tour returns to the UK this weekend, including two Glasgow dates, before heading...
- Research articles 2008-11-30
- Fridge magnate WILLIE HAUGHEY OF CRH INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK
- WEE Willie Haughey's not happy. Last week his plans to build a palatial mansion in south Lanarkshire, with views of his beloved Parkhead, were thrown out by the Scottish government for falling foul of green belt policies. Never far from the public eye, he returned to centre stage...
- Research articles 2008-11-09
- ITI eyes private sector for extra investment
- ITI Scotland, the publicly funded echnology incubator, is seeking to expand its budget by attracting funds from the private sector, its chairman Shonaig Macpherson, pictured right, told the Sunday Herald. Macpherson hinted that the organisation's GBP35 million annual budget might come under pressure during the economic downturn, but...
- Research articles 2008-11-09
- JUNKET SCOTLAND SUNDAYHERALD INVESTIGATION BY PAUL HUTCHEON AND TOM
- BUSINESSES are providing lavish junkets to littleknown but highly- influential staff across swathes of the public sector, a Sunday Herald investigation can reveal. Senior managers in councils, health boards and quangos are routinely accepting invitations to sporting events, concerts and dinner from firms interested in securing public contracts...
- Research articles 2008-10-19
- MAIL IN PRINT . . . AND ONLINE
- We don't need race advice from Bradford I AM surprised that a professor from Bradford University, Tom Gallagher, should be wasting his time criticising the SNP's Muslim policies (Sunday Herald, September 28). Surely he would be better engaged striving to heal the rift between the Muslim and white...
- Research articles 2008-10-05
- Labour's new leader slapped down by Des Browne
- JUST minutes after being elected as Scottish Labour leader, Iain Gray set himself on a potential collision course with London. As he declared victory, the former Scottish enterprise minister said that the nature of his win effectively made him leader of Labour in Scotland, not just of the...
- Research articles 2008-09-14
- Swinney aims to boost China ties TRADE: DEVELOPMENT
- CABINET secretary for finance John Swinney flies to China next week to press for stronger trade ties between Scottish businesses and their Chinese counterparts, while stressing that stronger links to the burgeoning Chinese economy are "more important than ever" during a global downturn. Swinney will attend the first...
- Research articles 2008-09-14
- The left & times of a new town Reflecting the ups and downs of the
- SIXTY years old this year, Glenrothes is going to get a party of sorts, and all the UK media are invited. The signficant birthday of the second-oldest of Scotland's new towns and the original Silicon Glen would have passed quietly, had it not been for the death of popular MP...
- Research articles 2008-08-31
- Tattoo faces GBP15m bill for stand fit for 21st century Organisers
- THE Edinburgh Military Tattoo's future is in doubt unless it raises GBP15 million for a new grandstand over the next few years, and it is looking to the public, businesses and the government for help. According to organisers, the current structure, which holds 8700 people and dates from...
- Research articles 2008-06-29
- ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE WHY SCOTLAND'S MISSING THE BUS ON ECO-
- TOP restaurateur Shirley Spear can't talk for long about the impact "inadequate" public transport links are having on her business - she has to head off on a 50-mile car journey to pick up a trainee chef. The co-owner of Skye's The Three Chimneys - widely regarded as...
- Research articles 2008-06-15
- ON THE AGENDA
- FOR the first time ever, the entire staff of Scotland's global sales force Scottish Development International arrives in Dunblane this week for three days of inspiration and intelligence-sharing. They will be addressed by fi nance secretary John Swinney, Sir John Elvidge, permanent secretary to the Scottish government, and...
- Research articles 2008-06-08
- Inside job satisfaction LENA WILSON INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK BY COLIN
- WHERE quango meets civil service meets political administration is a foggy area, hard for outsiders to penetrate. Scottish public sector Kremlinologists are having a speculative field day with the surprise appointment of Lena Wilson - already Scottish Enterprise's chief operating officer - to head inward investment agency Scottish Development International...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Creative crisis: the arts world in revolt It was meant to provide
- THE Creative Scotland Bill was introduced in March, signalling the end of a process that began nearly five years, two administrations and one cultural commission ago. But rather like the Hidden Masterpiece in Balzac's story, it appears that revision, editing and addition have left the finished bill a...
- Research articles 2008-05-18
- It could not be clearer . . .our agenda has been to promote
- IF this were business, not politics, they would have coined new jargon for what John Swinney MSP is now engaged in - "complacency management" perhaps. Swinney's priority is to project forward momentum, while allowing the politically necessary self-applause marking the first anniversary of SNP rule. The...
- Research articles 2008-05-18
- JOE NOBLE GOES TO MACDONALD
- Property group Macdonald Estates has recruited Joe Noble, the former chief executive of Scottish Enterprise Fife, as strategic development and infrastructure director. Macdonald is currently progressing plans to build the ambitious Falkirk Gateway project that involves offi ce, retail, leisure and a marina within a 150-acre development.
- Research articles 2008-05-18
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