Those were the heady days in the wake of the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, and we were full of optimism. I burnt ...

Energy giant SSE may keep Peterhead power station 10 years longer than planned, which critics fear could “blow an enormous ...

Human rights checks on firms seeking grants will be tightened following criticism those supplying states accused of war ...

More than 135,000 fish have died at a salmon farm in the northwest Highlands run by a Norwegian company in the last two years, The Ferret can reveal. A total of 135,016 lumpfish and wrasse – aka ...

Who Runs Scotland? That’s the question we have been trying to answer in our latest series. Often, in media coverage, it seems that the power in our country lies entirely within the Scottish Parliament ...

There have been 12 nuclear incidents that could have leaked radioactivity at the Faslane naval base since 2023, The Ferret can reveal. According to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the incidents at the ...

It took John Swinney two and a half months to secure a key meeting with Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the future for workers at Grangemouth – and the billionaire only spared half an hour of his time on a video ...

The power and influence of the wealthiest in society has been one of the main themes of The Ferret’s Who Runs Scotland series. We’ve looked at how powerful people and actors have leveraged their ...

Releasing pheasants into the countryside may boost the risk of humans catching Lyme disease, according to new research from universities and the UK Health Security Agency. The study, published in the ...

Scotland’s most influential public relations companies are staffed by former politicians, government ministers, spin doctors and newspaper editors, The Ferret has found, as we looked at the “revolving ...

Fossil fuel giants, influential PR firms and the short-term lets industry are among the top lobbyists of the Scottish Government since John Swinney became first minister, The Ferret can reveal. Energy ...

A study to determine the impacts of pheasants and red-legged partridges on Scotland’s environment and native species is set to commence this year. The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) aims ...