A new scheme to penalise salmon farmers when fish escape has been launched. But we found it is controlled by the industry ...

Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.

Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.

Billy is a founder and co-editor of The Ferret. He's reported internationally and from Scotland, and focuses on far right extremism, human rights, animal welfare, and the arms trade. Likes longform ...

Inside Hartwood Hospital’s overgrown courtyard, a derelict nursing home is being strangled by a net of ivy that creeps up its crumbing facade and vanishes into the tattered roof. A cage of spiked ...

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A total of 36 boats have been fined £140,000 in the last 10 months for entering Scotland's marine protected areas. But campaigners claim the fines are too small and may not be a sufficient deterrent.

The university has continued to argue staff cuts are needed to make ends meet. But a growing cash balance has raised questions about the need for more redundancies, and whether it qualifies for ...

The Ferret is Scotland's member-owned investigative journalism outlet. For ten years, we've been digging deeper into the stories that matter, holding power to account without fear or favour. We don't ...

Gypsy Travellers have been persecuted for centuries. But despite a Scottish Government apology last June for the Tinker Experiment – which tried to assimilate them into settled culture – some claim ...

The boss of a Chinese renewables firm, backed by the SNP to build a controversial factory in Scotland, was named in a bribery scandal, The Ferret has found. Ming Yang Smart Energy announced plans last ...