Claim Glasgow City Council put up posters of ‘high risk’ areas for sexual assault is False

Posters appeared on social media purporting to be from the local authority, but they are fake.

Ferret Journalists Jul 20, 2026

Society

School absence rates are reaching crisis point. How can we help young people facing ‘extreme’ social isolation?

Academics are raising concerns that an increasing percentage of young people, unable to cope with school, are withdrawing into their bedrooms, while families claim support is “woefully inadequate”.

Claire Prentice Jul 19, 2026

Human rights

Children in care die at twice the rate of others. Why are so few of their deaths reviewed?

A disproportionate number of children and young people growing up in care are dying prematurely, prompting calls for preventative action.

Karin Goodwin Jul 16, 2026

corporation tax

3 articles

Politics and power

Amazon warehouse now owned in tax haven after £6.3m tax payer subsidy

Amazon’s flagship Scottish centre, which received millions of pounds in publicly funded grants, is now owned in a tax

Karin Goodwin, Ally Tibbitt Jul 14, 2020

Politics and power

Amazon pays more tax to Fife Council than to the UK government

Amazon pays more to Fife Council in rates and rent than it does to the UK government in corporation tax,

Ally Tibbitt May 1, 2019

Politics and power

Ineos boss lobbied Osborne to bust unions and back fracking

Jim Ratcliffe, the boss of Grangemouth petrochemical giant Ineos, secretly lobbied George Osborne when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer

Rob Edwards Feb 27, 2017