Here are the top business stories making the headlines in the morning newspapers.
Aberdeenshire quarry plan rejected
A controversial project to build a quarry the size of 12 football pitches in Aberdeenshire has been rejected - three years after it was first tabled.
Members of the Formartine area committee voted against JKR Contractor Ltd's plans to dig out the site at Rainnieshill near Newmachar for 13 years.
Under the proposals, the site at Beauty Hill was earmarked for a 24-acre quarry to provide up to 60,000 tonnes of hard rock per annum.
This was expected to help the Ellon-based company stay afloat and protect more than 150 jobs.
However, the project has been a hotly discussed topic since its inception in 2019 - with hundreds of residents claiming the quarry "would ruin their quality of life".
The Press and Journal says 250 people submitted formal objections to the application, while 171 comments were lodged in support.
A petition to block the plans - deemed the single most controversial project since Donald Trump's golf resort at Menie in 2012 - was signed by 743 residents in the area.
European crop-production forecasts are cut
Brussels has slashed crop-production forecasts as an exceptionally-hot summer leaves almost half of Europe under drought warning conditions.
Officials said severe heat stress had resulted in "irreversibly lost yield potential" across vast areas of the Continent.
Drought conditions have caused widespread damage to yields including in Spain, France and Germany, the EU's Joint Research Centre said.
"Hot spells are expected to continue in many parts of Europe which are already experiencing exceptional drought conditions," researchers said.
Staple grain maize yields are now expected to be 9% lower than estimated in July, and 16% below normal levels.
Tom Price, an analyst at the UK's Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, told the Telegraph the figures indicated EU-wide corn production would be the lowest since 2015.
Plan for Cairnryan enterprise area
An alternative method of boosting the economy around the port of Cairnryan is being pursued after a bid to create a green freeport was dropped.
Dumfries and Galloway Council shelved its original plans after excluding P&O Ferries from the project as a result of its mass sacking of staff.
The BBC says it is now looking at creating an enterprise area instead.
The local authority said it believed that could still bring significant benefits to south-west Scotland.
Twitter accused of misleading users and regulators
A former security chief for Twitter has turned whistleblower and testified that the company misled users and US regulators about gaps in its security.
Peiter Zatko also claimed that Twitter underestimated how many fake and spam accounts are on its platform.
The accusations could affect a legal battle between Twitter and billionaire Elon Musk, who is trying to cancel his £37billion deal to buy the company.
Twitter says Mr Zatko's allegations are inaccurate and inconsistent.
It says he was sacked in January for ineffective leadership and poor performance.
In Mr Zatko's damning revelations, first revealed by CNN and The Washington Post, he accused Twitter of failing to maintain stringent security practices and "lying about bots to Elon Musk".
He filed his complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission in July. The BBC has seen a redacted copy of the complaint shared via CBS news.
In it, Mr Zatko also criticised the way in which Twitter handled sensitive information and claimed that it has failed to accurately report some of these matters to US regulators.
Twitter has faced a number of high-profile hacks with Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kanye West all targeted.
Among his concerns Mr Zatko alleges that Twitter suffered from an usually-high rate of security incidents - "approximately one security incident each week serious enough that Twitter was required to report it to regulators".