MoD confirms potential Scottish bomb sites after Ferret revelations
Government names areas being assessed for new munitions plants after The Ferret uncovers hidden details in a botched FoI response.
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Scottish Government rejects industry pleas on sick salmon photos
The Scottish Government defied concerted pleas by salmon farming multinationals to keep photos of diseased and damaged fish secret, according
Safety fears as Hunterston’s cracked nuclear reactors start to crumble
The graphite cores of two ageing nuclear reactors at Hunterston in North Ayrshire have begun to crumble as cracks spread,
Scotland’s top civil servant took 58 flights while telling staff not to fly
The Scottish Government’s civil service chief, Leslie Evans, has flown to and from London four times more often than
Airline stops shipping greyhounds to China after animal welfare concerns
An airline has introduced an embargo on the shipment of greyhounds to nations such as China with poor records on
Outrage over loch polluted by plastic waste from fish farm company
A sea loch on the west coast of Scotland prized for its wildlife has been polluted by countless thousands of
Marine industries must pay to protect wildlife, say environmentalists
Energy, fishing and other industries that profit from the sea would have to pay to help save marine wildlife under
Fines to rogue fishermen fall and illegal fishing escapes prosecution
The number of fines issued to rogue fishermen has decreased over the past three years while skippers caught fishing in
Scottish Government rejects legal ban on fracking
Scottish ministers have rejected calls for a watertight legal ban on fracking, promising instead that they would use planning policy
Official inspections of lice-ridden salmon farm slammed as ‘whitewash’
Government investigations into alleged animal cruelty after scarred, frayed and lice-infested salmon were filmed at a fish farm on the
Climate ‘under threat’ from new fossil fuel facilities in Scotland
A raft of new fossil fuel developments being planned across Scotland will lock the country into polluting the climate for
Ammonia air pollution risk as Scotland’s dairy herds grow
The growing size Scotland’s dairy herds could boost ammonia gas pollution, which contributes to millions of deaths worldwide, experts
Developer backed by Fergus Ewing required to replant wrecked pinewood
A hotel developer backed by the rural economy minister, Fergus Ewing, has been forced to restore an ancient pinewood illegally