Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
Sturgeon told to apologise for ‘intimidation and bullying’ over missing cash
Nicola Sturgeon must publicly apologise for “bullying and intimidating” SNP members who tried to expose criminality within the party, a senior politician has claimed.
Peter Murrell, the former first minister’s estranged husband, pleaded guilty last week to embezzling more than £400,000 from the party and embarking on a lavish spending spree.
He stole the money while acting as the SNP’s chief executive between 2010 and 2022, and bought items ranging from video games, cosmetics, jewellery, coffee machines, fountain pens to a Jaguar car and a motorhome worth £124,000.
Read the full story in The Times.
First Minister John Swinney throws support behind new Press and Journal campaign to reform business rates
First Minister John Swinney has thrown his support behind the P&J’s Fresh Start campaign to ease business rates in Aberdeen.
Speaking at Duthie Park this weekend, SNP leader John Swinney said he “very much welcomed” the new initiative designed to breathe life into struggling high streets.
The campaign will see this newspaper fight for business rates relief for vacant properties.
Read more in The P&J.
Reform chief ‘weeps’ at decline during Aberdeen city centre visit
The Aberdeen South by-election is a chance to reject “failed” business and energy policies and make the city “great again”, according to Reform deputy leader Richard Tice.
Mr Tice, who is Nigel Farage’s deputy in Reform, was in the north-east for the hotly contested by-election triggered by the SNP’s Stephen Flynn resignation from Westminster.
The political contest is firmly centred on the battle for the future of oil and gas.
Get the full story in The Press and Journal.
Massive Russian attack on cities across Ukraine kills at least 10 people
A Russian missile and drone attack has killed at least 10 people across Ukraine, six in Dnipro and four in the capital Kyiv, marking one of Moscow's largest assaults in recent months.
Dozens were also injured, including several children, after the overnight air strikes hit apartment blocks, with emergency crews racing to find people feared trapped beneath rubble in Kyiv.
Air raid warnings were in place across most of Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday.
The full article is available on the BBC website.