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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who owns the big six salmon companies? Mowi (formerly Marine Harvest) The largest shareholder is Geveran Trading, which is registered in Cyprus and owned by Norway’s richest man, John Fredriksen.

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 ...

Royston Mains Street in Edinburgh, one of several addresses tied to opaque SLPs. Photo by Angela Catlin. Royston Mains Street is our second stop today. We drove here after doorstepping another ...

Scotland – home to advanced satellite manufacturing capabilities, data analysis expertise and a satellite launch market – is vying to be a leading space nation and offers several benefits for ...

In the first nine months of Swinney’s premiership, 44 per cent of lobbying was by companies and business groups – higher than any other sector, including charities, campaign groups and trade unions ...