Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
Mystery buyer snaps up one of Aberdeen city centre’s most prominent hotels
One of Aberdeen’s most prominent hotels has been sold to a mystery buyer in a significant deal.
The 83-bedroom Mercure Aberdeen Caledonian Hotel overlooks Union Terrace Gardens.
It has been on the market for some time, with selling agents Graham and Sibbald revealing there had been “significant interest” in the business.
Read more in The P&J.
Could closing Aberdeen strip clubs bring new dangers for dancers?
"We have the power to say no here," says strip club dancer 'Amy'.
Not her real name, Amy fears that steps that could phase out strip clubs in Aberdeen will move the industry underground and make it unsafe for those who work in it.
The city council agreed earlier this month to adopt a "presumption against" granting new licences, including for any replacement of an existing site should it close in the future.
Amy, who is in her early 30s, told BBC Scotland News she believed that if the clubs eventually close, it could become dangerous for the dancers.
Barclays workers ask for more money to return to the office
Thousands of Barclays staff are demanding concessions from the bank after it said it wants employees to work from the office more often.
Staff who have been expected to work in the office for two days per week should be in the office for at least three days a week from next month, according to the company.
Unite, which represents about 36,000 Barclays staff, is calling for the bank to reverse its decision. The union is also pressing for exemptions and a payment to offset increased travel and childcare costs.
Read more from the BBC.
UN experts say grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran strikes
UN human rights experts say there are reasonable grounds to believe the US committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran that killed at least 177 civilians.
A new report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, external said February's missile strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd constituted indiscriminate attacks causing civilian deaths and damage to civilian infrastructure.
The US previously denied striking Lamerd and said it was investigating what happened in Minab. A State Department official said the US did not give credibility to the findings in the report.
Find the full story on the BBC website.
Earl Spencer: Charles was ‘giddily elated’ after Diana’s death
The King sounded “giddily elated” and “like a lottery winner” when he called Princess Diana’s brother after her death, Earl Spencer has claimed.
In the latest allegations emerging from a memoir about his late sister, Spencer suggested that when Diana died in a car crash in 1997, Charles’s reaction was to think “how this event might free him to marry the woman he loved”.
The fresh claims, made in Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, were met with silence by the palace a day after courtiers cast doubt on the claim that, in the days after Diana’s death, Charles told Spencer: “Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough.”
Read more in The Times.
BrewDog: Aberdeen and North-east unsecured creditors owed millions won’t receive a penny
Dozens of Aberdeen and North-east businesses owed millions from the collapse of Ellon craft beer giant BrewDog will receive not a penny back.
BrewDog made nearly 500 staff redundant after entering administration earlier this year, with estimated total debts at more than £550 million.
Administrators winding up the firm estimate the debts within BrewDog PLC at more than £280m and debts within its retail arm, which ran its bars, at another £270m.
Read more in The Press and Journal.
Healey to ask EU finance ministers to let UK into industry scheme
The chancellor is to warn the European Union (EU) not to lock the UK out of its scheme to protect industries from unfair Chinese competition.
John Healey will push for closer UK-EU partnerships on tech, defence, and manufacturing at a meeting of EU finance ministers in Dublin on Friday.
But he will call on the EU to design its "Made in Europe" programme in a way that deepens ties with the UK "rather than erecting new barriers", Treasury sources told the BBC.