Authorities tightened the rules around this Scottish business scheme after years of exploitation for financial crime. Moscow entities – and a man accused of facilitating child sex abuse – are still ...

This US-style right-wing political pressure group keeps its funders a secret. Its members have helped man Scotland’s ...

The Scottish Government’s green watchdog sent seven letters over three years alleging multiple breaches at a fish farm – and then issued a final warning letter.

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We continued our far right investigations throughout 2023, an area The Ferret has covered extensively for some years now. The ...

The UK Information Commissioner is facing criticism for endorsing the Ministry of Defence’s insistence on concealing issues with nuclear weapons because of growing threats from other countries.

Landowners, farmers and foresters are licensed to kill more than 1,300 brown hares every year during the breeding season, ...

A developer has been lobbying the Scottish Government to publicly endorse its definition of a ‘green’ data centre, according to documents obtained by The Ferret. The Scottish Government has backed the ...

Artificial intelligence has fuelled a “significant” surge in objections to some of Scotland’s biggest planning applications and prompted the Scottish Government to stop accepting public responses by ...

More than three quarters of Scottish salmon farms certified as “sustainable” broke the environmental rules of the certifying body last year without losing their accreditation, The Ferret can reveal.