‘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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‘We screamed for help and no one came’: Belarus expats on regime’s crackdown
Maria cried everyday throughout the summer as she read the news from Belarus on a computer at her home in
Revealed: fire safety and staff problems at nuclear sites
Nuclear bomb sites across the UK have fire safety problems as well as shortages of safety regulators and engineers, according
Fife arms firm profits from border walls contracts and ‘state repression’
An arms company in Fife, funded by the taxpayer, has won dozens of contracts globally for border security walls, prompting
Alarm over plan to break up nuclear submarines at Hunterston
The company that runs the port at Hunterston in North Ayrshire wants to use it to break up the radioactive
Poles apart: the Polish activists in Scotland fighting for equality back home
Remigiusz Jabłecki had never organised a protest before. During the four years he had lived in Scotland he had never
Facebook removes Scottish pages linked to QAnon conspiracy
Facebook has removed a number of Scottish groups on its platform identified by The Ferret as being associated with a
‘All I could see was water’: Asylum journeys across the channel
Ali, a 27-year-old asylum seeker from Iran, was finally in a boat that worked. At 4am, along with around 15
Deleted police records on thousands of Scots still held by other public bodies
Data on thousands of Scots that has been deleted from a controversial Police Scotland database over privacy concerns may still
Scottish doctor named in UAE human rights abuses lawsuit
A doctor with the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has been named in a lawsuit filed against an international law
Asylum in crisis: stories from inside the ‘broken system’
Pictures by Angela Catlin. Anthony is jumping from one excited four-year-old foot to the other, as if to keep his
Asylum charities spending tens of thousands to plug Home Office gaps
Refugee charities and grassroots organisations supporting asylum seekers have spent tens of thousands of pounds in a matter of months
Police apologise to anti-fish farm campaigner over access
Police have apologised to an anti-fish farming campaigner after he complained of being wrongly warned off from filming salmon cages