Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK could produce half of its projected demand for oil and gas domestically under the “right business conditions”, reducing […]
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When a young Ian Wood splashed out on an imposing presence for his family’s company at the inaugural Offshore Europe conference at the University of Aberdeen in 1973, his father John was aghast. Sir Ian — he was knighted in
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Plans by Westminster to certify English single malt whisky have been branded “sabotage” by Scottish politicians who fear it will
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Scottish government’s pledge to invest £25mn in Grangemouth has been welcomed by industry insiders, but is a
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A blueprint aiming to secure the future of Grangemouth, Scotland’s only oil refinery, which is due to close next year,
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The value of rare whiskies sold at auction has plunged this year, according to a new report that said a
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Pensioner Archie Hyslop fears for the future of Langholm, a former mill town at the heart of Scotland’s legacy textile industry. Dense forests are encircling his hometown near the border with England as investors snap up land to plant fast-growing
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ireland has signed an extradition treaty with the UAE, tightening the net on the notorious Kinahan criminal gang just over
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A row between the UK government and Dubai-based ports company DP World which had threatened to overshadow Sir Keir Starmer’s
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland, has died, it was announced on Saturday. He had been in North
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