Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
Claire’s Accessories to close Aberdeen and Elgin stores
Fashion retailer Claire’s Accessories is to close a store in Aberdeen and Elgin following its collapse into administration earlier this summer.
A UK rescue deal with Modella Capital saved 156 stores and around 1,000 jobs, but the St Nicholas Centre branch in Aberdeen and the High Street store in Elgin will close permanently.
Claire’s stores at Trinity Centre in Aberdeen and Eastgate Shopping Centre in Inverness are expected to remain open.
Read more on the P&J website.
Good Morning Scotland poised to be scrapped in BBC Radio overhaul
BBC Radio Scotland has warned star presenters their roles may be lost under sweeping changes understood to affect its flagship show, which has been running for more than half a century.
Good Morning Scotland hit the airwaves for the first time on Hogmanay 1973 and it has since become the longest-running and most listened-to radio show broadcast from Scotland.
However, The Times understands the programme, which runs from 6am to 9am on weekdays, is in danger of being dropped permanently as part of a radical shake-up of the station’s output.
Jaguar Land Rover UK production restarts after cyberattack
Production lines across all of Jaguar Land Rover’s British factories will restart next week, the company said, six weeks after manufacturing at the UK’s largest automotive employer was halted by a cyberattack.
Employees returned to work at the Solihull site in the West Midlands on Thursday, after the phased restart of production on Wednesday. JLR said that remaining production lines in Solihull, which make the Range Rover Velar SUV and Jaguar F-Pace models, would come back on stream on Monday, alongside vehicle manufacturing operations in Halewood, Merseyside.
Overseas factories in Pune, India, and Brazil are set to follow suit later next week, marking the final sites to resume operations.