A celebrity chef is ending a long-standing partnership with a renowned Scottish hotel.
The chef and television personality is to part ways with the hotel firm in the New Year, Scott Wright revealed in his story, which leads our selection this week.
It comes after Nick Nairn ran the restaurant at the Dunblane Hydro Hotel for 16 years.
Apex Hotels said that it has reached a “mutual decision” with Mr Nairn to end the partnership at the Kailyard Restaurant at the hotel in March.
The change comes shortly after Edinburgh-based Apex Hotels relaunched the destination following its acquisition of the historic property.
Prestwick Airport 'transformational' China flights wins
Prestwick Airport, which has been owned by the Scottish Government since 2013, has revealed its latest financial results.
The airport has also highlighted the boost provided to its performance in the current financial year from "transformational growth".
Prestwick Airport, the workforce of which has grown to more than 500 following significant recruitment this year, has today reported a sixth consecutive year of profit.
The airport, known officially as Glasgow Prestwick, has posted operating profit of £3.5 million for the 12 months to March 31, up by around £300,000 on the prior financial year.
It declared that, amid “transformational growth” in its cargo operations, it has already achieved its annual operating target in the first six months of its current financial year. The first half of its current financial year ended on September 30.
Plan for 1000 homes at former Scottish factory site approved
Plans for nearly 1,000 new homes in a Scottish city have been approved.
The developer said it will “deliver one of the most exciting and best-connected development sites in Scotland” that will also include a new hotel.
Proposals for a residential-led, mixed-use development at Edinburgh Gateway, the site of the former Saica packaging facility in West Edinburgh, were given the green light by councillors.
The application for the site near Edinburgh Airport by Summix Capital, was granted planning permission subject to conditions.
The Edinburgh Gateway development provides a unique opportunity to regenerate the former industrial site on Turnhouse Road, covering 15.5 acres.
AROUND THE GREENS
Frosty fairways: Scotland's Christmas golf tradition
This article appears as part of Kristy Dorsey's Around the Greens series
In one of many such examples from that time, an article published on page seven of the 26 December 1895 edition of The Glasgow Herald lists the winners and scores from a competition the previous day at Burntisland Golf Club in Fife.
"The ordinary club sweepstake prize competition for Christmas prizes was concluded yesterday, in boisterous and cold weather, but the turn out of competitors suffered little diminution." Geo. M'Allister came in first with a 66 (less 3) for a score of 63, followed by R. Dover's scratch score of 67.
The Christmas Day round is an old Scottish habit rooted in a pragmatic Victorian balance between piety and leisure. Newspaper accounts from the 1870s onwards describe informal competitions held at various clubs throughout the country.
It began as a companionable and modest tradition in a country where, suppressed by the Protestant Reformation, Christmas did not become a public holiday until 1958. However, the modern winter festival season is increasingly becoming a revenue generator in golf's off-peak season.
