Don Staniford is a prominent campaigner who targets Scotland's farmed salmon industry. But companies like Mowi claim his activism risks the safety of staff and legal action has been taken to stop him entering fish farms.
Scottish babies and toddlers are being put at risk due to unsafe sleeping conditions and a lack of basic necessities in homeless accommodation, it is claimed.
Four Scottish council pension funds are invested in an oil facility targeted by Iranian drones.
Sir Peter Mathieson appears to have confirmed he is being paid for a board role at a university spin-off at the same time as many staff face uncertainty about their futures.
The principal of the University of Edinburgh has confirmed he is working a paid second job while overseeing cuts that have seen hundreds of staff leave the institution.
The Ferret reported last year that Sir Peter Mathieson had taken on a role as a non-executive director at Roslin Cell Therapies (CT) – a private company that grew out of the university’s Roslin Institute, where Dolly the Sheep was cloned.
Mathieson took the position in mid-2024, months before announcing the university was seeking £140m of savings which unions believe could put up to 1,800 jobs at risk.
Mathieson and the university did not previously say whether the role was paid, despite questions from The Ferret. In September we revealed that the seven board members at Roslin CT had shared over half a million pounds in pay-outs in 2024.
At the time we reported that story, Mathieson’s register of interest form with the Scottish Funding Council – where he is also a board member – described the role as a “non-financial interest”.
But that document has since been updated to note that it is a remunerated position. Earnings Mathieson makes from the role will supplement one of the biggest pay packets in Scottish higher education, worth more than £400,000 each year.
Don Staniford is a prominent campaigner who targets Scotland's farmed salmon industry. But companies like Mowi claim his activism risks the safety of staff and legal action has been taken to stop him entering fish farms.
Scottish babies and toddlers are being put at risk due to unsafe sleeping conditions and a lack of basic necessities in homeless accommodation, it is claimed.
Four Scottish council pension funds are invested in an oil facility targeted by Iranian drones.
James Munro was a member of a now defunct neo-Nazi group in Scotland. He was told his involvement with Restore Britain "is not good for the party's values” but remains a member.
