Here are the business stories making the headlines across Aberdeen, Scotland and the UK this morning.
Top presenters must fight for jobs amid BBC Scotland cuts
A former senior BBC Scotland journalist has warned that some of its best-known presenters face losing their jobs, and its dedicated channel also faces being scrapped, as the broadcaster seeks to make millions of pounds of cost savings.
Douglas Fraser, who was the business and economy editor from 2008 until leaving in March, said the corporation was planning to reduce the number of its main presenters from nine to seven, and claimed the process would leave familiar faces vying against one another for their own jobs. One of the station’s most popular hosts, Anne McAlpine, left the broadcaster last week.
Writing on the online platform Substack, Fraser said that “the ubiquitous Martin Geissler, radio veterans Gary Robertson and Hayley Millar, Fiona Stalker plus ‘all the Lauras’: Goodwin, Maciver, Maxwell and Miller”, were under threat, alongside Amy Irons, the BBC Hogmanay host and radio and sports presenter, who on Saturday announced she was expecting her first child.
Read more in The Times.
Britain loses one pub every day as rising costs bite
Britain is losing one pub a day this year as businesses struggle under the weight of mounting costs.
Some 295 pubs closed their doors for good between January and September, according to analysis by the British Beer and Pub Association and that number is expected to reach 360 by the end of the year. Last year a net 336 pubs called a final last orders.
The organisation, whose members own more than 20,000 pubs, expects that the estimated closures will result in about 5,000 people losing their jobs, half of them under 25.
Read more in The Times.
Trump's 'energy ceasefire' claim welcomed by Zelensky but Russia silent
Donald Trump has claimed that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an "energy ceasefire", with Kyiv saying it would support such a move but Moscow yet to comment.
The US president insisted that it was "effective immediately" but provided no details.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky initially expressed surprise at the announcement, before saying Kyiv would support it if Moscow did. He also accused Russia of striking Ukrainian energy facilities after Trump's post.
Find out more from the BBC.
Documents falsified to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth
The world's biggest accountancy firm helped in falsifying documents to hide Roman Abramovich's wealth and evade tax, BBC Panorama has found.
Accounts signed off by Deloitte in Cyprus meant assets such as superyachts, mansions and private jets worth $672m (£508m) vanished from Abramovich's company accounts.
Deloitte also appears to have advised on a scheme to evade a huge tax bill on the oligarch's wealth through the falsification of documents.
Read more on the BBC website.
Bank details, names and addresses of Wood Group employees stolen by hackers
Employees of Aberdeen-headquartered engineering giant Wood had their names, bank details and home addresses exposed to hackers in a data breach, it has emerged.
The Press and Journal can reveal letters have been sent to current and former workers this week after an investigation into the data breach.
The hacking attack is believed to have been led by a notorious Russian e-crime group and took place in October 2025.