The Guga Hunt: Why a centuries-old Hebridean tradition is facing renewed scrutiny
The Ferret did a deep dive to explain why a bird cull on Lewis dating back centuries is causing outrage amid claims it's a "blood sport"
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Revealed: nearly 3,000 licenses issued for killing wildlife
Nearly 3,000 licences have been issued allowing protected species in Scotland to be killed or disturbed including hedgehogs, mountain
Ban UK citizens going to China for organ transplants, say Scots MPs
Scots MPs are among dozens of politicians from all parties at Westminster calling for a ban on UK citizens travelling
Chronic pain: £270,000 ‘talking shop’ slammed as frontline services stretched
A university project given nearly £300,000 of taxpayers’ money to research chronic pain has been criticised amid claims that
Anti-EU party standing for Leith ‘shameless’ for joining EU-funded group
A staunchly anti-EU party standing for the City of Edinburgh Council is a member of a far right group
Fife arms firm snubs meeting with MPs over Yemen bombs
Arms giant Raytheon, which has a bomb factory in Fife, has been criticised for declining to meet MPs to answer
US Christian right ‘dark money’ backed anti-abortion Glasgow students
A student council at one of Scotland’s leading universities has criticised the intervention of ‘dark money’ from a right
More than 400 children killed or injured by airstrikes in Yemen
At least 443 children in Yemen have been killed or injured in air strikes over the past year, according to
Home Office ‘utterly failing’ in treatment of detained immigrants, say MPs
A new report by an influential Westminster committee is scathing about the Home Office’s treatment of detainees at immigration
Police probe cyber attack on Dungavel detention centre
Hackers have brought down the computer system at Scotland’s only immigration detention centre prompting an investigation by Police Scotland,
Raytheon’s smart bombs linked to more alleged war crimes in Yemen
Smartbombs thought to have been part-made in Scotland were among weapons used in Yemen that killed or injured nearly
China promotes propaganda in Scottish universities, says report
Chinese cultural centres in Scottish universities promote Chinese Communist Party propaganda and “threaten academic freedom and freedom of expression”, claims
Home Office under fire from lawyers over ‘deeply concerning’ immigration powers
The power of the Home Office to overrule decisions made by immigration judges has been branded “deeply concerning” by the