Biopharma firm EnteroBiotix has raised more than £27m in funding from new and existing investors to expand its work. The company focuses on gut health and employs some 50 people developing microbiome medicines. It is carrying out clinical trials of drugs designed to prevent and treat a range of conditions …
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A Scots mum has opened up on a gruelling 22-year-long battle with cancer. Faye Bala, 38, from Aberdeen, has been living with Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) – a type of blood cancer that affects the bone marrow – since she was just 16. She has told how her school days in …
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The history of aviation in Aberdeen is long and storied. An airport has served the Granite City since 1934 and popular carriers like Loganair and Ryanair are its principal link with the world. But it is often overlooked that Aberdeen once hosted the main base of a short-lived commuter airline …
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Thousands of postal workers across Scotland take a further day of strike action on Friday in an increasingly bitter dispute over pay and working conditions. Around 11,000 members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) have been locked in a dispute over changes to working conditions with Royal Mail and shows …
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Postal workers across the country, including those in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, will go on strike today over an ongoing dispute regarding pay and conditions. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said 115,000 members will take industrial actions – making it one of the largest strikes to take place this year after …
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The pound’s fall could see overseas investors’ share of investment in Scottish commercial property reach record levels, after data for the first three quarters of the year showed they account for more than half of current volumes. Commercial property consultancy Knight Frank found that Investment volumes in Scottish commercial property …
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Postal workers in Aberdeen formed picket lines outside depots across the city yesterday as the UK’s ‘biggest strike of the summer’ got under way. More than 115,000 Royal Mail and 2,000 Post Office workers walked out yesterday amid pay disputes. The Communication Workers Union is demanding wage rises to match …
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A heartwarming fundraising drive which reconnects the homeless with loved ones at Christmas has received praise from Stephen Fry. The actor Tweeted his support for Homeless at Christmas’ Advent Appeal to the delight of the charity’s East Kilbride co-founder Iain Hughes. The appeal is the brainchild of the Murray man …
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The sandwich chain Subway has been branded “anti-Scottish” after stores were given the green light to knock-back banknotes from north of the border. The company, which has around 50 stores in Scotland , said it had no policy on the issue after a Scot living in the north of England …
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Former Clydesdale Bank chief executive Lynne Peacock is to join the board of Royal Mail as a non-executive director in November. Peacock, who has also served on the board at Standard Life Aberdeen and Scottish Water currently holds positions on the boards of Nationwide Building Society and Serco Group. Read …
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