Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
Aberdeen Arts Centre thrown lifeline
Aberdeen Arts Centre has been handed a potential lifeline after councillors unanimously backed moves to explore ways of securing the long-term future of the historic venue.
Aberdeen City Council officers will consider five options, including a new lease of up to 30 years, offering Castlegate Arts the chance to buy the building and the council taking greater responsibility for repairs, with a costed business case expected ahead of next March’s budget meeting.
Councillors have also asked for up to £50,000 to be provided towards essential electrical upgrades, while the Arts Centre continues its campaign to raise £660,000 over three years.
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Christian Allard survives weeks-long no-confidence battle
Council co-leader Christian Allard has won his weeks-long battle to keep his job after a court case to oust him was branded “unnecessary”.
Since the beginning of last month, the Aberdeen SNP boss has been besieged by opposition councillors, who have called for several votes to try and oust him. Led by Labour leader M Tauqeer Malik, seven councillors took their fight to Aberdeen Sheriff Court, claiming that the local authority’s in-house rules were at odds with the law.
But Sheriff Lesley Johnston said that the court case was “unusual” and “unnecessary,” ruling that if councillors weren’t happy with the council’s own rules, known as standing orders, that they can change them.
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Home Office pulls plug on Aberdeen asylum seeker plan
Plans to house hundreds of asylum seekers on St Peter Street in Aberdeen have been dropped by the Home Office.
The site near Pittodrie was slated to welcome 150 asylum seekers.
In a letter seen by The Press and Journal, the Home Office cited that plans were axed due to “commercial and contractual reasons”.
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Scottish Govt 'will do all it can' to secure Grangemouth future
The Scottish government said it will do "all it can" to secure the future of chemical firm Syngenta's Grangemouth plant after the company announced plans to close the site.
Economy Secretary Stephen Flynn told MSPs he was "profoundly" disappointed at the firm's announcement last week, which has put almost 400 jobs at risk.
It later emerged Syngenta collected £1m of Scottish Enterprise funding to create new jobs but it has pledged to pay the money back if the site closes. Flynn said that neither the Scottish or UK governments were informed of the Syngenta board's proposal on the site's future ahead of last week's announcement.
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Scottish Jewish leaders call Greens’ stance on Zionism ‘abhorrent’
The body representing Scottish Jews has claimed that Green politicians have “declared themselves antisemitic” by adopting the “outright extremist” position that Zionism is racist.
The board of the Jewish Council of Scotland said it “wholly condemned” a motion passed by the Green Party of England and Wales at the weekend, which was largely endorsed by Ross Greer, the co-leader of the Scottish Greens.
Greens south of the border passed a motion declaring Zionism, the movement that backed a Jewish homeland and led to the creation of Israel, should be “treated as any other form of racism”. It also endorsed the creation of a single Palestinian state, which critics say would mean the elimination of Israel.
Click here to read more in The Times.