The Scottish Government is selling surveillance planes to save money and says drones are used to prevent illegal fishing. But ...

Ithaca Energy announced a major dividend on the eve of UK sanctions against companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements. A few weeks later it paid out £100m to a shareholder the UN says has ...

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Prospective MSPs are legally required to evidence their election spending and confirm the records are correct. Following an ...

Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.

Board members at the North Sea oil regulator hold Shell and BP shares. Critics say the investments raise questions about the ...

A new scheme to penalise salmon farmers when fish escape has been launched. But we found it is controlled by the industry ...

“I think they liked goading us,” says Siobhan Tolland. “I think they enjoyed the process. And this is where the misogyny comes in. This was sport for them.” She is talking about anti-asylum protestors ...

Scotland’s NHS boards have recorded more than 5,000 data breaches over the last four years, The Ferret can reveal. Incidents included staff sharing confidential patient information, a cancer patient's ...

Britain Remade is the apparently “grassroots” group leading the push to overturn Scotland’s ban on nuclear power. But The Ferret has found that two of its directors come from a firm which lobbies for ...

Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.