Herald Business LIVE: Today's top stories - October 16

Welcome to The Herald's Business live blog, where we’ll be bringing you the latest developments from across Scotland’s business industry.

• Good afternoon, welcome to The Herald's Business live blog, where we’ll be bringing you the latest developments from across Scotland.
• Airdrie hospital access road secures planning approval and funding
• New visitor centre planned at Mackintosh's Hill House
• Cairngorms restaurant and café put on market for £20,000
• Scottish Government urged to intervene over Dundee University job cuts
• The mounting pressures pushing Scotland's car sales forecourts to collapse
• Scots islands face depopulation crisis amidst ferry problems
• Scottish retail sales fall 0.7 per cent in real terms as shoppers rein in spending