Talking-up Scotland

In that ‘throbbing organ’, the Insider yesterday:

Research showing that Aberdeen in the most entrepreneurial place in the UK after parts of London has been welcomed by business. The Local Data Company (LDC) recently published research into the evolving landscape of the high street, and found that in 2017-18, Aberdeen came second place in the net increase of independent retailers, seeing a growth of 39 independent shops in the city. Only Tooting in South London was above the Granite City with 43 more independent shops than the previous year. The LDC surveyed more than 300,000 independent shops, and this gives a picture of how local businesses are performing in 1,300 towns and cities across Great Britain.’

https://www.insider.co.uk/news/aberdeen-entrepreneurial-place-uk-survey-13465711

Recent good news about Aberdeen:

As Scottish oil industry booms, Aberdeen contractors more confident but Scottish media pay little attention.

Aberdeen 20: Dundee 12? The competition for Europe’s largest fleet of hydrogen fuel cell buses

Aberdeen University makes ‘step-change’ advance in MRI scanning

Aberdeen’s National Hyperbaric Centre to double income in one year as Scottish Government invests £1 million in a second facility

Europe’s largest fleet of hydrogen-fuelled buses is in Aberdeen

Scotland’s economic growth evident in increased passenger numbers at Edinburgh and Aberdeen airports

Is Aberdeen booming again?

Footnote: Many years ago, being teased about Scottish place-names such as Ecclefechan and Auchtermuchty, I responded, youthfully, with those possibly illegal active verbs – Tooting, Wapping, Epping, Dorking and Wanking before remembering that the latter is in China.

Footnote 2: According to a reliable source, Tooting is the hometown of that great Reggae performer Tooting and the Maytals.