Scotland’s average house prices continue to rise

In the latest four week period available the Scottish average house price has increased by 1.4% to £150,341 as the volume of sales in Scotland also increased by 1.9%.
The map below lets you find out what’s happening to house prices in your area.

You can get the 52 week version of this map at ros.gov.uk. You [...]

Obituary: One of the Scots who invented the ATM

Who invented the cash machine? Like many useful inventions, a Scot came up with the idea – though two of us claimed credit for it. One of them, John Shepherd-Barron, has died at home in Scotland at the age of 84.
On the 40th anniversary of the first ATM, he explained that he’d come up with [...]

Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate sells on eBay for £6.50 instead of £229.99

Traders on eBay are selling hundreds of activation keys a day which allow users to install Microsoft’s most expensive version of Windows for less than a twentieth of its lowest discounted price.
And the world’s largest software company seems incapable of stopping the trade.
The Caledonian Mercury paid £6.50 to one of dozens of eBay sellers offering [...]