MoD confirms potential Scottish bomb sites after Ferret revelations
Government names areas being assessed for new munitions plants after The Ferret uncovers hidden details in a botched FoI response.
Politics and power
The Ferret investigates how power structures impact Scotland.
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Golf resort linked to Lord’s estate handed £100k Covid bailout
A Scottish Government agency has been criticised after handing £100,000 in Covid-19 bailout funds to a luxury golfing development
Private developers get £100m from housing fund but build just 700 affordable homes
A £150m housing fund has awarded more than £100m to private firms, prompting claims the Scottish Government is “doling out
Claim Scots will be £2,000 worse off after independence is Unsupported
Each year the General Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) report is published, and each year the document sparks controversy. A
Wildlife agency under fire for ‘sickening’ beaver images
The Scottish Government’s wildlife agency has come under fierce attack for including images of dead and dying beavers – including
Billionaire-owned shooting properties offered tax relief
Nine out of ten of Scotland’s shooting properties, including some owned by billionaires, are exempt from paying £10.5
Plan to run Hunterston’s cracked reactors for another year
The energy company, EDF, is planning to operate a cracked and ageing nuclear power station at Hunterston in North Ayrshire
Free market think-tanks advising UK government lack diversity
Free market think-tanks advising the UK government are “disappointingly” lacking in both racial and gender diversity, new analysis by The
Probe sparks calls for Scots property ownership data to be free
A series of investigations by The Ferret have sparked calls for the Scottish Government to publish data on Scottish property
Council faced £700k monthly PFI waste bill even if service was stopped
It was the private finance initiative (PFI) contract aiming to make Dumfries and Galloway council “cleaner and greener”, but which
Claim Sturgeon signed ‘once in a generation’ indyref agreement is Mostly False
The Scottish Conservatives have a new leader, Douglas Ross, who has promised to “leave the old divisions” of nationalism in
No Black senior executives in Scottish listed companies
Not one of Scotland’s 48 listed companies features a Black executive on its senior management team while just six
Pension scheme chasing retirees for money forced to review governance
A £2bn pension scheme chasing retired business owners for payments of up to £1.2m has been forced to review