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THE Bottom Line's financial correspondent was diligently searching his online press archive this week after for post-election news of TISA, the Tax-Incentivised Savings Association.

Sadly the only item to emerge was a report on the promotion of English non-league football team Truro City, revealing that "Monday's game also saw the return of the banned seven TISA (Truro Independent Supporters Association) members following the 'firework and boardroom' incidents at Dunstable Town".

Who would have thought that the Evostik Southern League could be so exciting?

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ITALY is emerging as a major export destination for Tennent's Lager. And that includes the brand's new gluten-free variety, which has been especially developed for the market.

"It's very much targeted. The pasta-loving Italians who are gluten intolerant are obviously jumping all over Tennent's gluten-free beer," quipped boss Stephen Glancey.

Chip off the old block

IT was a proud moment for Simon Howie, the Perthshire farmer best known for his eponymous bacon, haggis and sausages.

Daughter Lynn Howie, 21, picked a prestigious accolade at the Undergraduate of the Year Awards in London.

Ms Howie, in her final year studying economics and finance at the Strathclyde Business School, was named Future Business Leader of the Year at an event hosted by BBC star Fiona Bruce.

More than 3500 entries were received for 12 awards, with Ms Howie emerging victorious after negotiating online tests, applications, interviews and assessments.

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WHITEHALL will be a happy place this week, according to former senior government adviser Sir Gerry Grimstone.

The Standard Life chairman, who was at pains to stress his Scottish credentials ahead of this week's annual meeting ("my grandfather was a piper in the Black Watch"), said of British civil servants: "They don't see themselves in opposition, they like well-informed ministers who give clear instructions, they don't like indecisive ministers." So Sir Gerry, who has worked in his time for Barbara Castle, David Owen, Margaret Thatcher, Nigel Lawson, and latterly Messrs Brown, Cameron and Osborne, applauds Mr Cameron's reappointment of ministers to jobs they actually know about: "I think it's a particularly good thing."

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A COLLEAGUE points out the irony in betting firm Ladbrokes becoming the new sponsor of the Scottish Professional Football League.

He wonders whether it is the first time only time an organisation's key stakeholders - in this case the players - are banned from engaging the services of its sponsor.

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IT could be the biggest challenge to conventional retail wisdom yet. Because it seems that the customer is not right, after all.

According to new research, UK businesses are getting tough with complaining customers.

The survey of 1000 by alldayPA found more than three-quarters of people have been frustrated by businesses refusing to apologise when something has gone wrong with a product or service.

What next? No talking allowed in shops?