Easy to use iZettle helped to grow Scottish Milkshake Bar
Back in 2014, Pete Toye bought a 1971 VW campervan. As an avid milkshake lover, Pete noticed that there was a gap in the market for a milkshake bar in Scotland.
After noting this gap...
Virgin Trains establishes £25 million East Coast Innovation Fund
Innovation plays a central role in meeting the demands of today’s transport users. If we’re to keep pace with the rapid rate of technological progress and changing consumer habits we need to act quickly,...
Community Benefits
Maxi Construction – Let’s Build Together.
It has become increasingly common for public sector construction contracts to include requirements for the provision of Community Benefits. These can range from specific targets for the creation of...
Vigilance the key in the world of health and safety
For those working in the health and safety industry, vigilance is the key to success. Talk to specialist advisers and they will tell you that care is needed in everything that staff and contractors...
Heriot-Watt and Kazakhstan: a partnership with potential
Professor John Underhill, Chief Scientist of Heriot-Watt University, explains why the university joined the Scottish Government’s delegation at the Future Energy Expo 2017, and the vast potential for collaboration in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan has risen...
Additional £11 million of energy efficiency funding open to Scottish businesses
First minister Nicola Sturgeon said the new funding would “ensure Scotland leads the way in energy efficiency”.
The Scottish government has released a further £11 million of funding for homes and businesses via local authorities...
Choosing tourism as a career for life
Tourism employs 217,000 people –an increase of 11% over a year - and serves to illustrate just how important our industry is to the economy and the lives of working people across the country....
Passenger numbers soaring
In the 20 years Virgin Trains has been running the west coast service, we’ve seen our share of challenges. Not least of these was the closure of the route at Lamington at the start...
Scotland’s businesses are ready to grasp the opportunities
Scotland’s economy is getting smaller at the same time as the UK economy as a whole is growing at a healthy rate.
That is the snapshot from the Scottish Government’s calculations of Gross Domestic Product...
CalMac apprentices celebrate a year of firsts as part of the Scottish Apprenticeship Week
A group of three of CalMac’s current 19 apprentices, came together as part of Scottish Apprenticeship Week on 7th March 2017 to celebrate a year of notable milestones for the company’s training programmes.
The students...