Two black Rolls-Royces pull up and the suited Easdale brothers, Sandy and James, leave their security detail behind to head into Glasgow’s smartest hotel. Picture them then, if you will, as teenagers, elbow deep in filthy work at their father’s scrap metal yard cutting, cleaning and separating cables and you’ll see how far they’ve come.
Hard graft has inched them every mile to join Scotland’s billionaires – the pair are now worth a joint £1.425 billion, up by £62 million