Over 30,000 Scots in mental health crisis turned to A&E last year. Two thirds were not admitted
Lives are being lost because people are failing to get mental health support when they most urgently need it, a Ferret investigation has found.
John Finnie
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Scottish Parliament to review ethics of pension investments
Holyrood’s £82 million pension fund is to be reviewed after campaigners questioned whether some of its investments were ethical.
Call made for improved out-of-hours mental health care in prisons
Immediate changes should be made to put in place better out-of-hours mental health provision in prisons, it has
Fascist political group plans to infiltrate community councils
An extreme far right group modelled on Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists plans to put candidates up
Call for review over Police Scotland strip searches of women
Police Scotland figures on strip searches of women have been described as “alarming” and prompted calls for police chiefs to
Police Scotland amends counter terrorism plan after fracking fracas
Police Scotland has amended its counter terrorism plan after a report by The Ferret revealed they had labelled anti-fracking
Revealed: Boris Johnson’s Afghan trip cost taxpayers £20,000
Boris Johnson’s widely criticised trip to Afghanistan when a crucial vote was due on Heathrow’s third runway cost
Biometrics watchdog will lack powers, say critics
Government plans to appoint an independent watchdog to monitor how facial recognition, fingerprints and genetic information are used in Scotland
Urgent call for drug death prevention strategy to address Scottish crisis
Campaigners have called for a new prevention strategy to stop unnecessary suffering from drug deaths after new figures revealed that
Police criticised for million pound spend on mobile phone cracking tools
Police Scotland has admitted it did not fully consider the privacy or human rights implications of new mobile phone analysis
Scottish taxpayers give Italian arms firm £6m
An Italian arms multinational with sales worth nearly £7 billion in 2015 has received more than £6 million of taxpayers’
Revealed: Ryanair’s £650,000 Scottish Government subsidy
Government agency Scottish Enterpise gave more than £650,000 to Ryanair, the airline at the centre of a staffing dispute
Scrutiny over phone snooping tech won’t extend to Scotland
A move by the Home Office to improve oversight of public agencies using mobile phone interception technology will not extend