BBC Scotland has recruited Douglas Fraser as business and economy editor.

Fraser is former political editor of The Herald, a position he held since 2004. Prior to that he held the same position on the Sunday edition of the newspaper.

During the course of his career he also worked for the Observer and Sunday Times as a Scottish correspondent, and various positions at the Scotsman, he told Journalism.co.uk.

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