Claim John Swinney stayed at Peter Mandelson's residence is Mostly True
The first minister has been criticised online for staying with Mandelson on a trip to the US last year. We looked at the truth behind the claims.
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Bus firm failure to cut toxic fumes branded ‘disgrace’
Glasgow’s biggest bus company is ignoring an £8 million Scottish Government fund to stop toxic exhaust fumes polluting city
Scotland’s waste dump failure ‘could give England £100m’
Scotland’s failure to ban waste dumping could give England a “£100 million landfill tax gift”, an industry body is
Claim workplace levy is SNP ‘car park tax’ costing £500 per year is Half True
One of the most controversial aspects of the Scottish budget was only added at the eleventh-hour. The so-called ‘car park
Named: the city streets badly polluted by traffic fumes
Busy streets in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee are being polluted by exhaust fumes in breach of legal safety limits introduced
Supermarkets and drinks companies try to block recycling plan
Supermarkets and drinks companies have been attempting to block a recycling scheme planned by the Scottish Government, prompting campaigners to
Named: the ‘dirty dozen’ companies that pollute Scotland
Scotland’s most polluting companies have been named and shamed in a new database compiled by the government’s Scottish
Revealed: UK’s secret plan to dump 22 nuclear submarines in Scotland
The UK government secretly planned to dump the radioactive hulks of 22 nuclear submarines in the sea off north west
Revealed: how Scottish airports lobbied for £300m tax cut
Scottish airports have pushed for a £300 million tax cut in at least 14 meetings with ministers and MSPs over
Exhaust fumes blamed for killing mountain wildlife
Pollution from vehicle exhausts is “devastating” the fragile wild plants that cling to the arctic summits of Scotland’s highest
Trump and big name polluters damned as ‘poor’ by government watchdog
Donald Trump’s golf resort in Aberdeenshire has been condemned as “poor” for sewage pollution by the Scottish Government’s
Ineos facing prosecution over gas flaring breach at Grangemouth
The Scottish Government’s green watchdog is threatening court action against the petrochemical giant, Ineos, for failing to limit pollution
Call to shut down oil industry to combat climate change
Scotland must “rapidly” shut down its North Sea oil and gas industry to cut pollution and combat climate change, according