A total of 36 boats have been fined £140,000 in the last 10 months for entering Scotland's marine protected areas. But campaigners claim the fines are too small and may not be a sufficient deterrent.
The university has continued to argue staff cuts are needed to make ends meet. But a growing cash balance has raised questions about the need for more redundancies, and whether it qualifies for millions in public support.
Gypsy Travellers have been persecuted for centuries. But despite a Scottish Government apology last June for the Tinker Experiment – which tried to assimilate them into settled culture – some claim their cultural rights are still being denied.
Information on individuals barred from working with children will no longer be shared with Scotland’s criminal records disclosure agency
Cases in which people try to hurt or kill themselves in prison have risen by over a third in the
No-one has been caught for using drones to smuggle contraband drugs, tobacco and mobile phones into Scottish Prisons despite
Police Scotland has been criticised for refusing to release new figures on the number of children detained and held overnight
A £1.2m pilot project that tried to stop prisoners using mobile phones in jail is unlikely to be extended
A trove of documents released by the Scottish Parliament show that two former MSPs who shared a constituency office in
