Here are the stories making the business headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
The Body Shop changes hands again for £200m
Once-pioneering British ethical beauty brand The Body Shop has been sold for £207m.
It is a comedown for the brand that was worth four times that amount last time it was sold just six years ago.
Brazilian cosmetics group Natura said it was selling the chain "to simplify and refocus its operations".
The brand, which has a presence in 70 countries, has now changed hands three times since it was sold by founder Anita Roddick in 2006.
Stay Another Day: Aberdeen school Christmas holidays to be delayed after blunder
Christmas holidays in Aberdeen schools are to be delayed a day after a blunder left officials scrambling to arrange extra teaching time for kids.
Education bosses drawing up the year’s calendar forgot that schools have to be closed on Good Friday.
And the mix-up means youngsters will have to wait an extra day for the break at Christmas… with schools due to go on holiday in only 37 days.
Schools are meant to be closing on the Thursday, December 21.
If councillors approve the recommended fix, the term will roll on another day, until Friday December 22.
Aberdeen South politician Stephen Flynn named Britain’s ‘hardest’ MP
Aberdeen South MP and leader of the SNP at Westminster Stephen Flynn has been named as the “hardest” politician in Britain.
The MP, who was first elected to the House of Commons in 2019, received the accolade from current affairs magazine The Fence.
When The Press and Journal contacted the politician to see what he thought about his new title, we were told he was “in the gym” and unavailable for comment.
Mr Flynn became the SNP group leader at Westminster in December last year following the resignation of Highland MP Ian Blackford.
Ørsted asks for more government cash amid doubts over flagship wind farm project
The UK’s leading offshore wind developer is in talks with Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho about the fate of its flagship project off the coast of Norfolk, after spiralling costs cast doubt over its viability.
Ørsted, the Danish renewable energy giant, is understood to be in talks with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, led by Ms Coutinho, about securing more generous subsidy arrangements for its Hornsea 3 wind farm project.
It would see 231 turbines installed off the coasts of Norfolk and Lincolnshire, generating power for 3m homes.
Subsidies for Hornsea 3 were agreed with the Government last year through contracts for difference (CfDs), with operators guaranteed a minimum price per megawatt hour (MWh) known as the strike price. Ørsted was promised £37.35.