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 ...

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

A Scottish charity may be discriminating against transgender staff after announcing a change to bathroom access following the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act, say legal experts.

More than 135,000 fish have died at a salmon farm in the northwest Highlands run by a Norwegian company in the last two years, The Ferret can reveal. A total of 135,016 lumpfish and wrasse – aka ...

A Norwegian company has drawn up plans for Britain’s first deep-sea salmon farm in waters off Shetland, prompting concerns it is an “experiment in factory farming” that could damage the environment.

Clark said it was time to end private providers of vital public services being “entirely exempt from transparency”. In 2023, the outgoing Scottish Information Commissioner, Daren Fitzhenry, described ...

Evidence. There are a number of groups and political parties which have campaigned for the abolition of the Scottish Parliament, arguing that the devolved parliament costs too much money and focuses ...

Across Scotland memorials funded through Remembering Together ranged from music and events to benches and the creation of a special tartan in the Borders.. Govanhill Baths Community Trust, the ...