Scottish Government
UK government broke inspection rules at Scottish bomb factory
The UK government has failed to meet its official criteria for conducting “regular and thorough inspections” of arms facilities every
Mass shooting of mountain hares to be banned
Landowners will be prevented from mass shooting of mountain hares and salmon farmers face controls on sonic seal scarers after
Seal scarers used by fish farms branded ‘sonic torture’
Noise alarms used by the salmon farming industry to scare away seals could damage the hearing of whales, dolphins and
Plans to mine peat for a decade ‘breach climate targets’
New proposals to mine peat at a site in South Lanarkshire are “not consistent” with the Scottish Government’s targets
Rejected meat: five million defects found by food watchdog
More than five million animal welfare, contamination and processing problems have led to meat being deemed unsafe for humans in
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
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
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
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
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