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 ...

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 ...

Although a final closure date is yet to be announced, the refinery could be converted into a fuel import terminal as soon as 2025, in a move that could cost 400 jobs.. Friends of the Earth accused ...

The company’s Grangemouth chemicals plant – which is separate to its refinery – was allocated 25,000 unused permits in 2023. Last year an investigation by the Financial Times found that Jim ...

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 ...

‘Damascene conversion’ to wind power proponent. Entrepreneur MacDonald reportedly made around £20m from selling a financial firm to Dow Jones, and previously lived off the profits he made from buying ...

The Scottish Government’s nature agency is to axe a free service for people needing advice on bats in a move critics fear could result in “desperate householders” illegally destroying bat roosts. From ...