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 ...

Sources: UK parliamentary answers in 2024, 2023 and 2022. One incident at Faslane in 2023 was rated as “category A”, the highest risk rating used by the MoD. It has defined such incidents as having an ...

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 ...

The company’s Grangemouth chemicals plant – which is separate to its refinery – was allocated 25,000 unused permits in 2023. Last year an investigation by the Financial Times found that Jim ...

Although a final closure date is yet to be announced, the refinery could be converted into a fuel import terminal as soon as 2025, in a move that could cost 400 jobs.. Friends of the Earth accused ...

Reform UK’s Richard Tice boasted putting solar panels on his company’s properties could help tenants with their bills – despite publicly claiming people are being “ripped off” by the renewables ...

The North Sea oil industry stressed that it was still subject to taxes. “The offshore oil and gas industry is subject to corporation tax that is double that of other UK industries and has contributed ...

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 ...