Kristy Dorsey

6 days ago | heraldscotland.com | Kristy Dorsey

Carmen Griffiths, the Scottish Women's Amateur Champion in 2023, is a home-grown junior from Aboyne (Image: Aboyne GC) Established on the village green in 1883, Aboyne is the oldest golf club on Royal Deeside and has a strong pedigree when it comes to women playing the game. It has hosted several national events for female golfers including the Scottish Golf Women’s County Finals in 2016, LGU Coronation Foursomes Regional Finals in 2018, and the Scottish Senior Women's Open 2023.

1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Kristy Dorsey

More than 3,600 golfers from around the world were successful in securing a last-minute tee off time at the Old Course during the first year of a new digital draw system. A quarter of the 14,489 golfers who applied were able to access tee times through the singles draw introduced in March 2024 by Sy Andrews Links Trust, the custodian of the historic Old Course. The system gives individuals the chance to join existing groups of two or three who are pre-booked to play.

1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Kristy Dorsey

The owner of a financial planning firm set up 50 years ago by his father has taken the "biggest step ever" in the history of the business with the sale of a 30% stake to one of Europe's wealth management giants. Söderberg & Partners , which manages assets worth more than £85 billion, has taken the minority stake in Glasgow-based Murphy Wealth for an undisclosed sum. It marks the latest in a string of such deals by Söderberg, with this being its first in Scotland.

1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Kristy Dorsey

Upmarket cinema operator Everyman Media was boosted by the release of the latest Bridget Jones movie at the start of the year, marking a rebound from a disappointing close to 2024. Mad About the Boy was the driver of "positive momentum" in the first quarter, the company said, as it also outlined plans for measured expansion throughout the rest of this year.

1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Kristy Dorsey

The jobs market in Scotland and the UK is still chugging along for the moment but there are ominous signs in today's official data as to what likely lies ahead. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been grappling for a number of months with the questionable quality of its jobs market data, which has been hampered by low response rates to its main labour force survey.