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  The boss of Scottish aerospace company Orbex has said he “probably” wouldn’t want a spaceport in his back yard following objections to such a facility, including from billionaire landowner Anders Holch Povlsen.

  Orbex boss Chris Larmour admits he’s probably a Nimby (not in my back yard)…

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  Retail experts hope "screen fatigue" will encourage Scots to keep shopping "for real" beyond the initial post-lockdown bounce.

  Will a busy spell for the region’s shops prove to be just a short term bounce…

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  Emergence from lockdown has unleashed pent up demand by consumers and lifted the UK's economic prospects. Positive reports from the Bank of England and IHS Markit come after pandemic restrictions caused the UK suffer the biggest drop in output for 300 years in 2020. The Bank has forecast the economy will grow this year at its fastest pace since the Second World War while the closely-watched IHS Markit/CIPS UK Services PMI Business Activity Index found that business activity growth hit a seven-and-a-half year high in April. Although the outlook for the economy is rosier this year, the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) remained cautious and voted unanimously to hold…

  Pent up demand unleashed as lockdown eases raises UK’s economic prospects

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