New salmon farmers scheme condemned as “greenwashing opportunity”
A new scheme to penalise salmon farmers when fish escape has been launched. But we found it is controlled by the industry prompting criticism.
George Osborne
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Scottish councils pay ‘eye-watering’ sums of interest to UK treasury
Interest payments on historic loans taken out from the UK treasury have cost Scotland’s councils over £400m in the
£250bn: the cost of giving tax breaks to North Sea oil firms
The UK government has lost over £250 billion in 13 years by giving generous tax breaks to North Sea oil
‘An attack on human rights’: how austerity is eroding the lives of disabled people
For how long, wonders Alan Dick, can you stare at four walls before they start closing in? Seven years ago,
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