Nearly 250 Cosalt workers in Aberdeen face an uncertain future after the engineering firm's banks issued an ultimatum to withdraw loans at the end of the month.
The imminent threat to 250 Aberdeen jobs at troubled engineering firm Cosalt has been lifted after the company's potential new owner said operations would continue for at least another three weeks.
Sooner or later, I suppose, I had to join the media chatterati gabbling on about the banks and how horrible they all are. So what better way to end 2009 than by scribbling my tuppence worth about RBS & Co? For month after month, it seems, we have been bombarded with news about Scrooge banks.