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The Business: 22/02/2009

22/02/2009

BBC Radio Scotland - The Business, 22/02/2009

RBS sell-off, Alliance Trust, the Scottish paper industry and Iceland's financial woes.

Graham Stewart brings you news of the RBS sell-off, the Scottish paper industry and Iceland's financial woes. Plus an interview with Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive of Alliance Trust.

Graham Stewart brings you the stories and issues making the news in business.

BBC Scotland's business and economy editor, Douglas Fraser, looks ahead to a big week in banking as RBS and Lloyds TSB prepare to unveil their annual results. And what will plans by RBS to sell-off at least a fifth of its business mean for Scottish jobs?

Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive of Alliance Trust - Scotland's fifth largest plc - tells Douglas Fraser why taking the top job at the asset management company's Dundee headquarters was a good move.

Paper making has a proud history in Scotland but, as Gillian Sharpe reports, it's future is looking wafer thin after one of the country's last mills - International Paper of Inverurie - closes with the loss of 350 jobs.

And Magnus Bennett visits Iceland to find out how the caretaker government is attempting to recover from the nation's spectacular banking crash.

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