Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
Keir Starmer as unpopular as Nigel Farage, poll shows
Sir Keir Starmer is now as unpopular as Nigel Farag just three months after Labour’s landslide election victory, new polling suggests today.
The YouGov survey found that just 27% of the public have a favourable opinion of the prime minister compared with the 63% who have an unfavourable view.
Starmer’s net rating of -36 is now at his lowest level since he took over as Labour leader, after a dramatic end to his honeymoon.
Aberdeen office provider reveals city centre building now fully let
The first phase of a major Aberdeen office project has been fully let according to its owners.
The SRE Group has added Kenton Black Scotland to its tenants at its Merchant Exchange building in the city centre.
It is the fifth business to call the refurbished offices home, before phase two – which is expected to be finished early next year – will add a further four spaces.
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Immigration drives Scottish population to new high
Scotland’s population rose to its highest level last year, growing faster than at any time since the Forties, thanks to overseas migration, figures show.
The country’s population was 5,490,100 on June 30 last year, 43,100 more than a year earlier — the biggest jump in one year since 1946-47.
The National Records of Scotland (NRS), which produced the figures, said that migration was behind the rise as people moved to Scotland from other countries and from elsewhere in the UK.
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Very Group owners pick banks to spearhead £2.5billion sale
The family which relinquished control of The Daily Telegraph last year is to hire a trio of banks to oversee a review of ownership options for Very Group, their online shopping empire.
Sky News has learnt that the board of Very Group – now chaired by Nadhim Zahawi, the former chancellor – is lining up Barclays, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley to handle a strategic review that could see the Barclay family ending its lengthy involvement with the business.
The investment banks, whose appointments are likely to be confirmed within days, will kickstart a full or partial auction of Very Group, which has nearly 4.5 million customers.
eBay to ban private e-bike sales over fire fears
EBay will clamp down on the sale of e-bikes and e-bike batteries in the UK from October 31, the BBC has learned.
The firm says that only "eligible business sellers" will be allowed to list them after this date.
E-bikes, which have electrically-assisted pedals and are battery-powered, have soared in popularity, but incidents involving battery fires have also risen.
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