‘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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Dealing with being different: Young people facing racism in Scotland
The killing of George Floyd by police in Powderhorn, Minnesota, has led many to evaluate racism not only in the
Scots pension funds put £90m in firms linked with US rights abuses
Scotland’s largest council pension funds have investments worth £90 million in companies profiting directly from President Donald Trump’s
Neo-Nazi Scottish Dawn propagandist jailed alongside ‘Miss Hitler’
A neo-Nazi who produced propaganda for the banned far right group, Scottish Dawn, has been jailed after being found guilty
Ministry of Defence wasted £9m on ‘fruitless payments’
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has wasted £9 million on tax fines, contract errors and other “fruitless payments”, according to
Fergus Ewing is ‘un-ministerial’, says civil service union
The rural economy secretary, Fergus Ewing, has been criticised for “an abdication of responsibility” and as “very un-ministerial” by a
Seal shooting by fish farms to be banned to save exports to US
The Scottish Government is going to ban the fish farming industry from shooting seals to save a £180 million export
Rape charity demands changes after judge condemns trial
A charity supporting victims of rape has called for “radical changes” to how sex offence cases are handled after a
MSPs reject Scottish Government curbs on freedom of information rights
The Scottish Government has been forced to withdraw all the emergency relaxations it made to freedom of information (FoI) law
Information law must be toughened to prevent evasion, say MSPs
A new law requiring Scottish Government meetings to be minuted to prevent any “deliberate attempt” to evade freedom of information
Relief as opposition parties move to restore information rights
Laws weakening freedom of information (FoI) rights in Scotland look set to be repealed after just a few weeks because
Call for probe after man found dead in Covid-19 asylum seeker hotel
Refugee activists have called for an independent inquiry into the decision to move asylum seekers from their flats in Glasgow
Council fund invested £7m in Israeli bank fined for football bribe scandal
A council pension fund has shares worth nearly £7 million in an Israeli bank fined for tax evasion and conspiring