Concern over bid to exempt organic food certification from public scrutiny
Campaigners asked for inspection reports on organic salmon farms in Scotland. It led to an appeal which could limit the public right to access environmental information.
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Mosul: the appalling human cost of the battle to defeat IS
It’s late afternoon in Iraqi Kurdistan and Hasar Husein and Haithan Abdul Kareem lie side by side on stretchers
Charlotte Street Partners lobbying for Rupert Murdoch papers
Influential PR firm Charlotte Street Partners is lobbying on behalf of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper titles in Scotland, The Ferret
Would an independent Scotland have to join a queue for EU membership?
Scotland’s constitutional status is once again in question after Nicola Sturgeon’s second referendum plan received Scottish Parliament backing.
The Bosnian steel town choking to death
Most winter days, the sky over Šahiza Šehić’s house is filled with plumes of acrid black smoke. Šehić, who
The carnage and crisis of Mosul
“Daesh put its fighters on the top three floors of the hospital while patients were still downstairs…there were even
Anger over Buccleuch ‘land grab’ in bowling green battle
Britain’s biggest landowner, the Duke of Buccleuch, has been accused of a “land grab” after he sold off a
Ban on polluting pesticide dropped after complaint from fish farmers
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) secretly ditched a plan to ban a toxic pesticide contaminating sea lochs and killing
Scottish ministers roasted on freedom of information
An investigation by Scotland’s information watchdog has lambasted ministers for their “poor” approach to freedom of information law. The
Footage of illegal trap released amid fresh calls for more powers for SSPCA
Footage of a trap allegedly being used illegally to target birds of prey has been obtained by The Ferret, amid
Ineos plans for fracked gas at Grangemouth under fire
A £450 million plan by Ineos to develop the Grangemouth petrochemical complex for fracking is facing fierce opposition from hundreds
Scottish councils pour £1.7bn into polluting fossil fuels
Scottish local authorities are investing £1.7 billion in 52 fossil fuel companies blamed for causing climate chaos, according to
Scrutiny over phone snooping tech won’t extend to Scotland
A move by the Home Office to improve oversight of public agencies using mobile phone interception technology will not extend