Communities were promised a share of Scotland’s wind boom. Some are being sold short
More than 20 wind farms are failing to pay an agreed amount to locals. That could cost Scottish communities over £50m.
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Power struggle: The billionaire, the Chinese oil giant and Grangemouth’s forgotten workers
Grangemouth should have been Scotland’s big opportunity to realise its ambition for a just transition – moving workers into cleaner, greener jobs. But embittered power struggles got in the way, The Ferret finds.
Councils pay millions to media and marketing firms
Scotland’s councils have been accused of spending funds that could have been used for staff pay and public services
Fears raised for town centres due to cost of living crunch
Thousands of commercial units are lying empty across Scotland’s town centres, sparking concerns that more businesses will shut as
EU citizens ‘riddled with anxiety’ as Home Office fails to process more than 300,000 applications
More than 300,000 people are still awaiting confirmation from the Home Office they will be allowed to remain in
Home Office condemned for ‘parallel world’ of ‘unsuitable’ Scottish asylum accommodation
The Home Office has been condemned for creating “a parallel world” of unsuitable asylum accommodation in hotels across Scotland where,
Ineos still bidding to drill for underground gas in Scotland
The Grangemouth petrochemical giant, Ineos, is attempting to resurrect plans to drill for underground gas in central Scotland, provoking alarm
Air pollution from traffic is getting worse on some Scottish streets
Air pollution from exhaust fumes has increased on streets in Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Falkirk and Perth, according to the