Jobs, bills and energy security: Fact-checking claims about Jackdaw gas field
The new gasfield was announced in recent weeks by the UK Government, and a number of claims emerged about its impact.
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Glasgow spent ten million on agency cleansing workers
Glasgow City Council has spent almost £10m on agency workers to empty bins and deal with recycling in the last
Future ‘bleak’ as council data reveals neighbourhood cutbacks
New figures have laid bare staffing reductions in neighbourhood services in the last five years leading to cuts in parks,
Scottish councils pay ‘eye-watering’ sums of interest to UK treasury
Interest payments on historic loans taken out from the UK treasury have cost Scotland’s councils over £400m in the
Councils pay millions to media and marketing firms
Scotland’s councils have been accused of spending funds that could have been used for staff pay and public services
Council contracts with debt collectors worth up to £20m
Local authorities have been accused of issuing “escalating threats” to people behind on their council tax, after The Ferret found
Half of Scots councils are ‘mismanaging’ community funds
Half of Scotland’s councils have been accused of mismanaging common good funds created to benefit local communities after their
Escalating asylum seeker deaths prompt calls for inquiry
An escalating number of deaths in the asylum system are being “brushed under the carpet” it has been claimed, as
Glasgow homeless hotel making up to a million for ‘rundown’ rooms sparks outrage
A Glasgow hotel housing vulnerable homeless people is being run “like an open prison” while charging £1,400 a month
STUC accuse Scottish Government of ‘tartan Tory austerity’ at cost-of-living summit
Scotland’s Trades Union Congress (STUC) has issued a call for further Scottish Government intervention on the cost of living
Family fleeing Iraq death threats housed in ‘filthy and infested’ Home Office flat
Afran opens a drawer and pulls out creams and tablets, prescribed to deal with the bites covering his children’s
Seeking safety: Rwanda deportation case to be heard in Scottish courts
A Syrian father of three, who fled for his life and was facing deportation by the Home Office to Rwanda,
Calls for Dundee women to be offered support without pregnancy ‘pause’ conditions
Critics of a controversial project which works with vulnerable mothers in Dundee have called for programme rules – insisting women who