Human rights checks on firms seeking grants will be tightened following criticism those supplying states accused of war ...

Scottish universities have accepted millions of pounds from Chinese organisations with alleged links to the military, human ...

The UK statistics regulator questioned first minister John Swinney after The Ferret fact-checked a claim he made on Scottish ...

In the aftermath of these issues, Sepa said it was developing a “new approach” to compliance. As The Ferret reported in 2023, campaigners and a former Sepa boss feared that this would impact ...

It took John Swinney two and a half months to secure a key meeting with Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the future for workers at ...

How is migration to the UK changing? Net migration to the UK – that’s the difference between the number of people who leave and arrive – was unusually high in 2023, at 685,000 people.. This was ...

Over 100 people from the oil and gas sector have taken up senior government roles under the Conservatives, and two dozen have left such positions to work for major oil companies. An investigation by ...

Sources: UK parliamentary answers in 2024, 2023 and 2022. One incident at Faslane in 2023 was rated as “category A”, the highest risk rating used by the MoD. It has defined such incidents as having an ...

Ketamine is known as both a party drug and a horse tranquiliser. But now it is to be offered to Scots suffering severe depression for the first time at a private clinic in South Lanarkshire. The ...

But PFAS take a very long time to break down in the environment and the human body, earning them the moniker ‘forever chemicals’. They have been found almost everywhere, from human blood to the Arctic ...

Over the last month, we have spotlighted the people, organisations and businesses that wield this power across Scotland. We kicked off by revealing the businesses who have been attempting to woo the ...