Claim John Swinney stayed at Peter Mandelson's residence is Mostly True
The first minister has been criticised online for staying with Mandelson on a trip to the US last year. We looked at the truth behind the claims.
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‘Profiting from pain’: Staffing agencies made millions from the NHS
Private firms supplying medical staff to NHS Scotland have made millions of pounds of profit and paid some directors up
‘Disgusting’: half of Scotland’s most popular beaches plagued by sewage
More than half of Scotland’s most popular beaches for wild swimming have been polluted with unsafe levels of sewage
Longer A&E waits disadvantage women, figures show
Women wait longer than men for emergency medical care in Scotland despite the fact they are more likely to be
Does the new foreign ownership law go far enough?
In the UK, companies must publicly name who owns them. Not all countries impose the same requirements, however, and information
Tory funders own more than £50m of Scottish property in secretive tax havens
Major financial backers of the Conservative Party – including personal donors to Boris Johnson – own lucrative properties across Scotland through secretive
The tampon dispatch – Perth’s solution to menstrual equity
Once every four or five weeks, Tampon Taxi driver Jayne Cafferty picks up a bundle of parcels on her way
Postcode lottery: Patients less likely to get face-to-face appointments with city GPs
Urban GPs with large patient lists are among those most likely to give patients phone consultations, The Ferret has found,
Revealed: One in six lobby meetings at Holyrood published late
Corporations, businesses and charities lobbying MSPs and ministers to influence Scotland’s laws have reported thousands of meetings later than
‘Corporate con’? Big polluting investors behind push for hydrogen heating
Authoritarian regimes and financial giants with stakes in the fossil fuel industry are among investors who would benefit from plans
Hydrogen trial fears loss of funding if explosion testing results published
The firm behind a Fife trial of hydrogen in homes has refused to release the findings of explosion testing because
Concerns raised over GP chains taking over practices
Health boards have stepped in to save dozens of Scottish GP practices from closure in the last six years, The
GPs working at ‘unsafe levels’ as patient numbers soar at a third of practices
The number of patients registered to each GP has increased at almost one third of practices across Scotland in the