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Nigel, who joins the business from another national firm, will play a key role in establishing the office, growing the team, and carrying out residential valuations, home reports, bank reports, executory, commercial valuations and tax valuations. The opening of the St Andrews office will make Allied Surveyors Scotland the largest chartered ...

With the welcome return of the Eat and Drink Festival, first seen alongside the show last year, the four day event will showcase the latest trends and products in interiors, home renovations and gardens. Special guests include Phil Spencer and Rosemary Shrager with more famous faces from the world of homes ...

Take it from me, people who tell you that they're not nervous on their first day in a new job are lying – it’s a completely normal emotion. In fact, you would be less “normal” if you didn’t feel nervous. Starting work at the 3x1 Group office in Edinburgh – ...

ATTENTION was drawn this week to the nascent Scottish Labour leadership race and the divergent early fortunes experienced by candidates Richard Leonard and Anas Sarwar. On its face, the contest between the two MSPs is yet another iteration of the wider struggles the Labour Party has faced between its ‘left’ and ...

BOTH Holyrood and Westminster are now well into their summer recesses, what in media terms is known as “the silly season”, when otherwise minor stories are often blown out of all proportion. It isn’t a purely British phenomenon. In France it’s known as “la morte saison” and in Germany “sommerloch”. For some ...

There’s an old saying in the media that “good news is no news”. Various attempts over the years to launch publications carrying only positive, uplifting stories have withered and died. The simple truth is that people are interested in bad news, from horror crimes to natural disasters, from political scandals ...

Another Scottish independence referendum is a rather more distant prospect, following First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s speech in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday. So was this a screeching U-turn by Ms Sturgeon, or simply a nuanced restating of the existing position? Well, that depends which newspaper, media outlet, or politician you believe. Unionist-supporting ...

ONCE again, the world of politics in the past week has been overshadowed by events far from the confines of either Westminster or Holyrood. There is little doubt that the political repercussions of the tragic tower block fire will be felt for months to come as details of the cause of ...