Energy giant SSE may keep Peterhead power station 10 years longer than planned, which critics fear could “blow an enormous ...

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

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.

Scottish universities have accepted millions of pounds from Chinese organisations with alleged links to the military, human rights abuses and spying, The Ferret can reveal. Some universities accepted ...

The future of Holyrood was called into question this week, after claims that more than a third of Scots wanted to abolish the devolved parliament. Numerous social media accounts and media outlets ...

It took John Swinney two and a half months to secure a key meeting with Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the future for workers at Grangemouth – and the billionaire only spared half an hour of his time on a video ...

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

Glasgow City Council has been accused of “moral” and “bureaucratic” failure over delays to a memorial for victims of the Covid-19 pandemic which is sitting in storage at taxpayers expense. Former ...

First minister John Swinney has been rapped by the UK statistics regulator for making a misleading claim about Scottish education, following a fact check from The Ferret. During a Holyrood meeting in ...

A new bill to widen freedom of information legislation in Scotland and cover private firms providing public services has been introduced to the Scottish Parliament. Katy Clark MSP’s bill aims to ...

Ferret Fact Service looked into this claim in a fact-check article and gave it a ‘Mostly False’ rating. This was because Swinney was using one specific type of attainment – positive destinations for ...

Ferret Fact Service verdict: Unsupported The claim that 37 per cent of Scots want to abolish Holyrood is not supported. The poll on which the statistic is based asked whether those surveyed would like ...