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.
Jane Tallents
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Nuclear crash exercise beset by blunders, says MoD
An exercise testing emergency responses to a nuclear bomb convoy crashing, exploding and spreading a cloud of radioactive contamination was
Revealed: nuclear bomb convoy’s 40 safety incidents
The nuclear bomb convoy that regularly criss-crosses the UK by road has logged 40 safety incidents in the last three
Threat to nuclear safety from prolonged Trident patrols
New evidence that Trident submarines have been at sea for a record-breaking five months in 2022 has prompted a former
‘Sleekit’ increase in Trident nuclear warheads on the Clyde
The UK Government has secretly boosted the number of Trident nuclear warheads stored on the Clyde over the last five
22 nuclear bombs delivered to Scotland despite Covid
As many as 22 nuclear warheads were transported from England to Scotland in eight road convoys during 2020 despite coronavirus
Gaps revealed in nuclear convoy crash preparations
A series of shortfalls in Scotland’s emergency arrangements for coping with a nuclear bomb convoy crash have been exposed
Safety risks exposed by nuclear bomb convoy exercise in Scotland
An emergency exercise imagining an explosion spreading radioactive contamination from a nuclear bomb convoy crash in East Lothian was hampered
Anger at MoD plan to rethink nuclear submarine waste disposal
Plans by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to rethink the disposal of radioactive waste from 27 defunct nuclear submarines have
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
MoD took seven years to conduct ‘urgent’ review of nuclear convoy dangers
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has taken seven years to conduct a review of the risks of nuclear bomb convoys
Alarm over steep rise in nuclear bomb convoys in Scotland
The number of nuclear bombs being driven to and from the Clyde rose more than fivefold last year to help