‘Backroom’ lobbying on Coul Links golf plan under fire
Scottish ministers have been privately urged to back plans for a golf course on a coastal wildlife site. This has been condemned as “backdoor lobbying that tries to bypass the rules”.
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Far right Homeland activists gain Scottish community councils seats
Members of a new organisation formed after the “UK’s most dangerous group on the British far right” splintered are
‘We are on the frontline’ – a year on from Kharkiv Oblast being liberated, its residents tell their stories
On 5 October, one year and two days after the Kharkiv Oblast was liberated by Ukrainian forces, Russian rockets struck
Home office bedroom sharing policy for asylum seekers sparks safety concerns
A Home Office policy forcing asylum seekers in hotels to share bedrooms is allegedly causing distress and could escalate community
Podcast: UK Government rhetoric puts torture survivors at risk, says top psychotherapist
The UK Government is “whipping up hatred” against asylum seekers and putting vulnerable people at “real risk” from harm, according
Silent disaster: Eni’s Nigerian subsidiary accused of causing major oil spill
An oil spill in Nigeria that polluted rivers and destroyed crops was allegedly caused by a firm owned by an
Scottish veterans suffering from PTSD abandoned by justice system
Former military servicemen and women across Scotland suffering from combat related trauma are falling between the cracks of the criminal
Scottish Government accused of funding ‘marketplace of death’ with £8m in public grants
The Scottish Government has given over £8m in public grants to companies exhibiting at a London arms fair hosting states
Host asylum seekers on Edinburgh ship and we’ll give you £6m, UK Government tells council
The UK Government offered a £5.9m pay-off to Edinburgh council in an ultimately futile attempt to house thousands of
‘These are our people’: How a street-based therapy service is tackling San Francisco’s drugs crisis
In a side street off a busy thoroughfare in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMA) neighbourhood, dozens of people
How prescribing safe supply is helping drug users in Canada turn their lives around
The morning sun begins to sweep slowly across the city of Vancouver as the traffic noise starts to build. In
‘National embarrassment’: famous footpath stays closed
A Scottish Government agency has again delayed plans to re-open a famous and popular footpath in Edinburgh, prompting angry denunciations
Over 100 security incidents at MoD nuclear weapons body
An arm of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) which oversees the UK’s nuclear weapons programme has refused to release