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UK construction companies have indicated a decline in business activity for the third consecutive month during November, led by another sharp fall in residential building.

Joint administrators from PwC have announced the planned closure of all 400 Wilko stores by October, resulting in around 12,500 staff losing their jobs.

UK construction companies recorded a marginal increase in total business activity during August with growth in the commercial and civil engineering segments helping to offset a slump in house building.

Joint administrators from PwC for Wilkinson Hardware Stores Ltd, along with its subsidiaries wilko Ltd and wilko.com Ltd, have confirmed the closure of two Scottish stores – Irvine and Clydebank – resulting in a loss of 38 jobs.

Big Four accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been fined £5 million in relation to its audits of Galliford Try and Kier Group. The company was fined a total of £8,850,000, adjusted to £4,998,500, by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) - £3,038,750 and 

Big Four firm PwC is being investigated by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) over its audits of construction firms Kier and Galliford Try.

The demand for ‘Green Jobs’ is higher in Scotland than in any other part of the UK, and the country is also best positioned to maximise the benefits of green investment, according to PwC. These findings come from PwC’s Green Jobs Barometer launched today - a first of its kind analy

Transport Scotland has reappointed Turner & Townsend to provide the audit and monitoring service in relation to the technical, financial, and commercial management of the maintenance and improvement of the Scottish Trunk Road Network.

Edinburgh and Aberdeen are among the best places to live and work in the UK, according to the Demos-PwC Good Growth for Cities Index.

Nearly 250 jobs have been lost after Fife interior fit-out specialist Havelock International collapsed into administration.

Average house prices in Scotland will grow by 14% to reach £170,000 by 2022 if a no-deal Brexit is avoided, according to new analysis from PwC.

The size and value of project management to the UK economy and society has been benchmarked for the first time in a major new report. Commissioned by the Association for Project Management (APM) and conducted by PwC UK, research has identified that project management in the UK generates around &poun

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has today issued PwC with a £5 million fine, its largest fine to date, for misconduct relating to its audit of Connaught plc, a FTSE 250 social housing company which went into administration in 2010. The UK’s independent regulator for accountants and actuarie

Paul Brewer The average house price in Scotland could exceed a quarter of a million pounds by the end of the decade, economists have predicted.

Brian Ashcroft Scottish output growth is being fuelled by a combination of capital investment – particularly infrastructure spending – and consumer spending, according to the latest Economic Commentary from the University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute.