The company that runs Scotland’s ageing nuclear power station wants to weaken safety standards to keep it running for at least four more years. But the nuclear safety watchdog has its doubts.

Everyone’s medical history and records should be confidential and secure in the hands of the NHS. But there have been serious ...

Millions of pounds from a flagship Scottish Government environmental fund has been mispent by councils, The Ferret can reveal. The Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) – part of a strategy to tackle Scotland ...

A senior activist with Reform UK claimed to have prior knowledge that migrants in Northern Ireland would be targeted by rioters who set fire to family homes last week. Grant Calder, who campaigned for ...

Russian oligarchs, billionaires, foreign governments, international royalty, and banking giants are among those behind nearly 1,000 offshore entities who are illegally flouting the land control ...

Scotland's commissioner for children and young people has called on the government to take urgent action to end the use of unsuitable temporary accommodation for children. Following an investigation ...

You probably haven't heard of him, but one out of every five pounds banked by Scottish parties came from his fortune. Robin MacGeachy’s wealth was made in the obscure business of gas generators for ...

On a gusty spring morning at Machrihanish Dunes, James Parker is talking about golf, nature, and this course’s resident sheep who are hidden somewhere amongst the rolling sand dunes. We’re on the ...

Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire resort is the only one of Scotland’s top golf venues confirmed to have broken environmental rules in recent years, The Ferret has found. Trump International on the Menie ...

The vape shop at the centre of the fire that engulfed historic buildings on Glasgow’s Union Street fire had not paid business rates, The Ferret has found, and does not appear to be registered to sell ...

More than four years ago then-first minister Nicola Sturgeon called time on fossil fuels, claiming that it would be “fundamentally wrong” to keep extracting oil and gas for as long as possible. Later ...

Amidst the UK’s raging culture war and increasingly polarised debate about immigration, claims about “sharia law” are a permanent feature. Last year Reform UK councillor Audrey Dempsey caused ...