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Graham Stewart with the stories and issues making the news in business.

Ahead of its half-yearly results, the chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management, Martin Gilbert, tells our business editor Douglas Fraser how the company's past troubles saved it from present financial hardship.

Discussing the week's business stories are Raymond O'Hare, former head of Microsoft Scotland, regional chair of the IoD and who now heads up his own consultancy OC Solutions, and Martin Stepek, chief executive of the Scottish Family Business Association.

And Gillian Sharpe reports on how new technologies are making it easier for people to work in different ways.