Glasgow family firm to open pizza restaurant in Edinburgh St James Quarter | Scottish energy giant exits North Sea
Business Week
Glasgow family firm to open pizza restaurant in Edinburgh St James Quarter | Scottish energy giant exits North Sea | Edinburgh oil firm wins $1bn tax case Scottish energy giant SSE this week agreed to sell its North Sea gas business to acquisitive Viaro Energy for £120 million amid the shake-up in the area. The deal will allow London-based Viaro to acquire stakes in a range of big North Sea assets including the giant Laggan Tormore development West of Shetland.
It means garden centres and homeware stores will have to close from Boxing Day. Garden centres were permitted to reopen at the end of May, the first sub-sector of retail to be allowed to re-open following the introduction of the national lockdown in late March. The Scottish Retail Consortium said shops have taken every mitigation possible to keep customers and staff as safe as possible . It said papers from public health advisers SAGE and its Welsh counterparts, the Technical Advisory Group, have explained the closure of shops would only have a “very minimal impact” on R values and reducing transmission of the virus.