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

Scottish universities have accepted millions of pounds from Chinese organisations with alleged links to the military, human ...

The UK statistics regulator questioned first minister John Swinney after The Ferret fact-checked a claim he made on Scottish ...

It took John Swinney two and a half months to secure a key meeting with Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the future for workers at ...

Across Scotland memorials funded through Remembering Together ranged from music and events to benches and the creation of a special tartan in the Borders.. Govanhill Baths Community Trust, the ...

Glasgow City Council has been accused of “moral” and “bureaucratic” failure over delays to a memorial for victims of the Covid-19 pandemic which is sitting in storage at taxpayers expense. Former ...

Evidence. There are a number of groups and political parties which have campaigned for the abolition of the Scottish Parliament, arguing that the devolved parliament costs too much money and focuses ...

Clark said it was time to end private providers of vital public services being “entirely exempt from transparency”. In 2023, the outgoing Scottish Information Commissioner, Daren Fitzhenry, described ...

A new bill to widen freedom of information legislation in Scotland and cover private firms providing public services has been introduced to the Scottish Parliament. Katy Clark MSP’s bill aims to ...

A Norwegian company has drawn up plans for Britain’s first deep-sea salmon farm in waters off Shetland, prompting concerns it is an “experiment in factory farming” that could damage the environment.