Ministry of Defence under pressure on Trident balloon accident
Local people filmed a large balloon meant to provide last-ditch communications in a nuclear war deflating and crashing. But the Ministry of Defence won’t say anything about it.
Politics and power
The Ferret investigates how power structures impact Scotland.
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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Laws weakening freedom of information (FoI) rights in Scotland look set to be repealed after just a few weeks because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
Pension funds can divest from Palestinian occupation firms, court rules
Human rights campaigners in Scotland have welcomed a ruling by the UK’s Supreme Court that council pension funds can
Covid-19 planning laws ‘captured’ by property developers
Rule changes during the Covid-19 pandemic favour property developers and risk shutting the public out from the planning system,
The largest 10 vacant and derelict sites in Scotland
Five of Scotland’s 10 largest pieces of vacant and derelict land are not being brought back into use despite
Bank increases bet that Irn-Bru maker AG Barr will fail
A Swiss private bank has upped its multi-million pound bet on Irn-Bru maker AG Barr to fail during
Scots vulnerable to Covid-19 struggle to get home deliveries
Scots vulnerable to the coronavirus are struggling to access vital home delivery services because the Scottish Government has failed to
Government delays to information rights ‘draconian’
Changes to Scotland’s freedom of information (FoI) law which were narrowly agreed by Holyrood for the coronavirus crisis, have