Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.

Reform UK ‘eyes Peter Murrell’s campervan’ for campaign trail

Reform UK plans to buy the camper­van purchased by Peter Mur­rell with money he embezzled from the SNP, it has been reported.

Nigel Far­age’s party is believed to have made “inquir­ies” in the hope of find­ing out whether the vehicle will be auc­tioned by Police Scotland and would use it to tour Scot­land on the cam­paign trail.

Far­age and Mal­colm Offord, Reform’s Scottish leader, hope to pick up hun­dreds of coun­cil seats at next year’s local elec­tions.

Read more in The TImes.

Five dead after Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport

An Amazon Air cargo plane overshot the runway while attempting to land at Miami International Airport, killing five people and seriously injuring five more.

The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft crashed just before 14:00 local time (19:00 GMT) after departing from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The flight also hit several vehicles on the ground.

Amazon said that it is "working closely with local authorities and officials to understand exactly what happened".

Read the BBC story here.

No bailout for struggling Jaguar Land Rover, minister insists

The business secretary has said there will be no bailout for Jaguar Land Rover as the UK’s largest car manufacturer prepares to cut 4,000 jobs.

Jonathan Reynolds already spoken to PB Balaji, JLR’s chief executive, and said he would meet the company’s leadership team and Sharon Graham, head of the Unite union, for urgent talks on Tuesday. 

JLR is expected to confirm its redundancy programme on Monday after The Sunday Times revealed it was to cut 4,000 jobs over two years as it grapples with rising costs and falling sales. 

Read more in The Times.

Chancellor to say UK economy 'turning a corner' despite debt concerns

The chancellor is set to give an upbeat view of the state of the UK economy ahead of next month's Budget, building on a recent uptick in consumer and business confidence.

In a speech on Monday, John Healey will talk of a "new story" of the economy not just turning a corner, but being resilient, optimistic and "ready to seize the opportunities of new technologies and ideas".

He will also unveil a £150m fund for companies in the north of England.

Find out more from the BBC.

Swinney suggests Scots will not travel further for health care under reforms

Scots should not have to travel further for health care under the government's plans to cut the number of health boards from 14 to two, John Swinney has suggested.

The BBC asked the first minister about the impact of such changes for people who are already travelling long distances - such as women living in the far north who have to travel 100 miles down the A9 to give birth in Inverness.

Swinney said it would "not be my intention" for people to travel further, with initial modelling showing the country divided into two east and west health boards.

English businessman: ‘We would pay to repair Bon Accord Centre bowling green ourselves – but will go to Glasgow if council keeps ignoring us’

Padel bosses eyeing up a major revamp of a disused Aberdeen city centre site have given council chiefs a month to “stop holding up the deal” – or they’ll take their business to another city.

Just Padel, headed up by Umar Haji and Hasan Bux, has been involved in negotiations to take over the decaying Bon Accord Leisure Centre, which has been empty since 2012.

The duo from the north-west of England want to expand their fitness firm by turning the rundown former bowling green into a number of courts to accommodate the rising popularity of the sport.

Read more in The Press and Journal.

Germany's far-right AfD hails big victory in east, but falls short of majority

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won a decisive victory in Germany's eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, far ahead of mainstream rivals.

But preliminary results show it has fallen short of an outright majority needed to govern alone, with 43.8% of the vote to the conservative CDU's 17.2%, and tricky negotiations on who will run the state lie ahead.

AfD's charismatic leader in the state, Ulrich Siegmund, said it was "sensational" and the party had won a mandate to govern.

Read the full BBC article.

 

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