Students working in Edinburgh University were “interrogated” by police at their desks over posters featuring Palestinians ...

Dozens of wild swimming spots where water quality is classed as “good” or “excellent” were contaminated with human or animal faeces this summer, analysis by The Ferret has found. Official testing ...

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 ...

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 , ...

Ferret Fact Service looks at the festive claim that Santa Claus is dressed in red because of Coca-Cola advertising. This content is for Standard Monthly , Standard Annual, Gold Annual, and Lifetime ...

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’s green watchdog has been urging the Royal Navy to remove potentially radioactive waste from the UK nuclear bomb base on the Clyde.

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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 ...

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 ...

Saltire is also linked to an online dating service called I Am Naughty. The brand is owned by Bulova Invest Limited, a company registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), a tax haven where ...

The diseases, damage and infestations suffered by hundreds of thousands of caged salmon in Scotland have been exposed by more than 300 photos released by the Scottish Government. This content is for ...