Steven Vass

Deputy Business Editor, Sunday Herald

I've been at the Sunday Herald for over six years, first as media correspondent and then deputy business editor since 2008. My first area of interest is energy and utilities, but I also write regularly on manufacturing/industry, life sciences and economic development. I previously worked as a media analyst in London for Zenith Media and as a VSO volunteer in Zambia.

I've been at the Sunday Herald for over six years, first as media correspondent and then deputy business editor since 2008. My first area of interest is energy and utilities, but I also write regularly on manufacturing/industry, life sciences and economic development. I previously worked as a media analyst in London for Zenith Media and as a VSO volunteer in Zambia.

Latest articles from Steven Vass

The seeds of dissent

It starts in the next couple of weeks with indoor pedigree breeds like Texels and Suffolks, before moving outdoors a few weeks later to lowland pasture areas with the so-called mules, which are crosses between Cheviots and blue and black-faced Leicesters. In April, weather permitting, the likes of the pure Cheviots will follow them on the hillsides, by which time large numbers of calves will have been delivered too.

Oil on troubled waters

Before a single line had been spoken, the events of five years ago had set the scene for a grudge rematch of epic proportions.

Glasgow's £2 million question … and several others

That's the question facing Clyde Gateway this weekend. The details are such that it has already become the subject of a police investigation. The agency might be best known for its key role in preparing the area for next summer's Commonwealth Games, but its more pressing race at present is to explain how on earth it landed in the middle of this one.

Behind the scenes of the deal of the century

Most of the media were convinced it wouldn't happen. Even the men who pulled it off had been insisting a few months earlier that it wouldn't happen. But at three o'clock last Monday morning at the London offices of law firm Herbert Smith Freehills, a couple of blocks from Shoreditch tube station, it mattered not. The pens of the two teams of advisers and lawyers were finally ready to go to put signatures in the relevant places. As the rest of the world would discover at the stroke of seven when the stock market opened, Aberdeen Asset Management had just pulled off the big one.

Is our green energy dream falling apart?

The tranquillity in this thoroughfare between the Great Glen and Strathspey since the days of the Jacobites has been disturbed by a team of engineers putting up a rather significant electricity tower.

A FUTURE UP IN THE AIR

Glasgow Prestwick Airport, with its extra-long runway, Elvis connection and alarming lack of passengers, is about to head in the opposite direction.

A struggle for power

Almost five years and five months to the day of the strike that turned into one of the most memorable union victories in the UK since the 1970s, 81% of the circa 1200 workers at the Ineos complex in Grangemouth voted "yes, yes" in a new industrial ballot.

TeamRock makes play for the big time after cash boost

On the back of the cash injection, which will come in tranches over the next three years, TeamRock will invest £4.9 million setting up a headquarters and digital operation with a view to developing a major international brand.