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Economic crisis

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VAT frozen for University of Edinburgh students »

Evan Beswick, EUSA

Edinburgh University Student Association (EUSA) has announced that the rise in value-added tax (VAT) will not be handed on to students shopping and drinking at union outlets. Following a temporary 2.5 percent reduction on non-food items in 2009 design...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Megan Taylor | Read more »

Clothes-swapping website thrives in credit crunch »

Covert Candy

Style-conscious students, it seems, need not fear for their wardrobes in the wake of the economic downturn, as a recent City University graduate has launched a website facilitating nationwide clothes swapping. CovertCandy.co.uk employs a system of cre...

Wed 11 Feb 2009 by Corinne Redfern | Read more »

Zavvi drops shutters in Edinburgh for the last time »

Virgin Store

Administrators handling the bankruptcy of the music, DVD and games retailer Zavvi—formerly Virgin Megastore—have closed a further 18 UK stores, including the last remaining Edinburgh branch. The closures have resulted in 353 job losses wit...

Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Elise Carter | Read more »

£100,000 slashed from capital house prices »

Housing Recession

As high street stores offer discounts in the annual January sales in an effort to attract customers, prospective house-buyers are also being encouraged to check their local estate agents for deals this month. In light of the recent dramatic drop in ho...

Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Camilla Conrath | Read more »

Further grim news for jobseeking graduates »

Careers Service

According to new research, students graduating this year are facing the worst job prospects in over two decades. The Graduate Market in 2009, a study of graduate vacancies and starting salaries carried out by High Fliers Research, reveals that overall...

Mon 26 Jan 2009 by Laura Robertson, Amy Grant | Read more »

RBS criticised over mysterious 'Silent Nine' »

MSPs from across the political spectrum have been adding their voices to shareholders of the Royal Bank of Scotland this week in calling for the removal of the troubled bank's board of independent non-executive directors – the so called "silent n...

Sun 25 Jan 2009 by Ross Melton | Read more »

RBS to write off £1bn loan to Russian oligarch »

The waning confidence in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has dropped further in the past few days, as it emerged that it is on the point of cancelling a substantial sum loaned to a Russian oligarch. Of the £2.5 billion loaned to Leonid Blavatni...

Sun 25 Jan 2009 by Abi Buglass | Read more »

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