The police force protecting our nuclear sites keeps losing classified stuff
Three years ago we revealed a "litany" of security incidents within the police force which guards nuclear plants. They haven't reduced much since.
Politics and power
The Ferret investigates how power structures impact Scotland.
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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
Claim Holyrood meets once a week during lockdown is false
UK politicians have been forced to adapt to the Covid-19 outbreak like many others, with councils and parliaments experimenting with
Fergus Ewing attacked over 25 meetings with fish farm firms
The rural economy secretary, Fergus Ewing, has been accused of breaching the ministerial code by failing to record 25 meetings
Two Scottish councils lending £15m for English council to gamble with
Two Scottish councils have loaned millions of pounds to an English council which borrows far more than any other council
Do not give Ineos £500m Covid bail-out, say campaigners
Over a hundred campaigners are asking the Scottish and UK governments not to bail out the petrochemical giant, Ineos, during
Loopholes let MSPs declare ‘arbitrary’ share values
A Conservative MSP is exploiting a loophole in parliamentary rules to avoid declaring the value of her stake in 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
“Wholesale slaughter”: around 100 beavers shot in Tayside
Farmers and landowners have legally killed around one hundred wild beavers in Tayside, The Ferret can reveal. Campaigners have condemned
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Laws weakening freedom of information (FoI) rights in Scotland look set to be repealed after just a few weeks because
Torness nuclear reactors predicted to start cracking in 2022
Cracks that could increase the risk of a radioactive accident at Torness nuclear power station in East Lothian will start