Footage of farmed trout apparently suffocating, haemorrhaging, and being beaten with batons in a slaughterhouse has prompted an official complaint to a government regulator. The video – seen by The ...

Care homes chains operating in Scotland have had hundreds of complaints upheld by inspectors in recent years, The Ferret can reveal. Data we obtained via freedom of information from the Care ...

As the cost of living crisis continues to bite a recent survey showed that 90 per cent of the public were concerned about rising prices. The crisis was debated on the BBC’s Debate Night programme, ...

Over 100 people from the oil and gas sector have taken up senior government roles under the Conservatives, and two dozen have left such positions to work for major oil companies. An investigation by ...

Children in poorer parts of Scotland have nearly 10 per cent fewer choices of subjects in secondary schools than those in better-off areas, new research has found. The evidence suggests that students ...

The Scottish Government’s regulation of the private rental sector has faced criticism in recent years from both tenants and landlords. Emergency efforts to restrict evictions and cap rents during the ...

MPs have voted to ban activist group Palestine Action, after members broke into a UK military base in Oxfordshire last month and damaged planes. The group’s direct action was in protest against the UK ...

Protests and riots were sparked by the fatal stabbings of three young girls in Southport, after false speculation spread online that the perpetrator was a Muslim asylum seeker who had come to the UK ...

At least nine million fish have been killed by diseases, botched treatments, poor handling and other problems at salmon farms around Scotland since 2016. This content is for Standard Monthly , ...

Hedgehogs have been listed as “near threatened” by a global wildlife organisation with the population in Scotland estimated to have fallen by as much as 50 per cent over the past two decades.

The UK government has lost over £250 billion in 13 years by giving generous tax breaks to North Sea oil companies, according to an expert report. Increasingly lax tax regimes by successive Westminster ...

The Scottish Government has appointed a former head of North Sea exploration at oil giant Shell to the board of its main environmental watchdog. Dr Sue Paterson has been named as one of six new board ...