Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
Crown Office to manage post-mortems in Aberdeen
The Crown Office has taken over management of post-mortem examinations in Aberdeen due to a shortage of qualified staff in the city.
Officials said the "unprecedented" move was necessary to "minimise distress" for bereaved families.
There has not been a full-time forensic pathologist based in Aberdeen since 2022 and the Sunday Post reported, more than £100,000 was spent on locums last year.
Gordon Ramsay merges UK and US restaurant operations
Gordon Ramsay has struck a deal to merge the UK and US operations of his restaurant group in a move that will bring in fresh investment from Lion Capital, the US private equity firm.
The celebrity chef is reorganising his restaurant empire to bring together global operations into an entity he will co-own with Lion Capital which will provide new funding as part of the deal after making an initial investment into Ramsay’s US business of $100million in 2019.
The transaction will create a group with a board headquartered in London, with Ramsay and Lion Capital each owning 50% of the business. Bankers at Rothschild & Co advised on the deal.
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Lloyds told it must publish ‘in full’ report on £1bn HBOS fraud
Lloyds Banking Group has been told it must publish in full a long-delayed report into whether it covered up a £1billion banking fraud.
Dame Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Treasury committee, said she expected the bank to place a “full copy” of the Dame Linda Dobbs review into the public domain once it is completed.
Her intervention follows concerns that the bank would issue only selected “findings” of the independent investigation into its alleged mishandling of the HBOS Reading fraud.
Tech will quit Britain over online safety crackdown, warn Musk and Google
Tech companies including Elon Musk’s X and Google have claimed that businesses could leave Britain over the cost of funding an online safety crackdown.
Google said fees that will be charged to internet companies as part of the Online Safety Act risked “driving services” out of the UK, while X warned that it could “disincentivise” global companies from entering the market.
It comes as the Government faces pressure to wind back a proposed crackdown on US tech companies from the Trump White House.
South Korea bans new downloads of China's DeepSeek AI
South Korea has banned new downloads of China's DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, according to the country's personal data protection watchdog.
The government agency said the AI model will become available again to South Korean users when "improvements and remedies" are made to ensure it complies with the country's personal data protection laws.
In the week after it made global headlines, DeepSeek became hugely popular in South Korea leaping to the top of app stores with over a million weekly users.
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