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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Scotland’s councils underspend on period products
Less than half of the funding allocated to Scotland’s councils in the run-up to the government’s flagship Period
Hundreds of cervical cancer cases go undetected as Scottish screening rates fall
Hundreds of cervical cancer cases are going undetected in Scotland each year due to missed routine screenings, The Ferret can
NatureScot signs off subsidies to billionaire’s estate for burning heather…and restoring land
NatureScot has been criticised for signing off £120,000 of taxpayers’ money to a Highland estate for peatland restoration, while
56 MPs accepted paid-for-trips and gifts from Qatar worth £370,000
At least 56 MPs accepted paid-for-trips and gifts from Qatar collectively worth £370,000 over the five years before the
More than a third of properties in Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street are vacant
Sauchiehall Street is Scotland’s most struggling high street with 36 per cent of its shops, offices and domestic properties
Pretty vacant: Local authorities and tax havens own hundreds of empty properties
Local authorities own over 1,100 vacant properties in Scotland’s cities while real estate investors, tax haven firms and
Retail haven: Three in four city shopping centres have offshore links
More than three out of four of Scotland’s largest city shopping centres are owned in, or linked to tax
Two-thirds of high street property owned outwith Scotland
Only a third of properties on Scotland’s busiest shopping streets are owned by companies registered in the country, The
Number of Scots facing benefit sanctions doubles over three years
The number of people who have had their benefits sanctioned in Scotland has doubled over the last three years, an
MPs accept £800,000 worth of trips from states in Saudi-led coalition
MPs have accepted £828,211 in the form of all-expenses-paid trips funded by states in a Saudi-led coalition fighting in
Call for support for childminders as figures show ‘worrying’ decline
The number of childminders practising across Scotland has fallen by over a third, leaving thousands of families struggling to find
Mapping the green rush: Scotland’s carbon credit sites
As part of the The Ferret’s series on Scotland’s Carbon Credits, we revealed the developers behind the carbon