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 ...

A Scottish charity may be discriminating against transgender staff after announcing a change to bathroom access following the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act, say legal experts.

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.

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 ...

According to Mowi, the UCL study related to research from over 20 years ago that “does not take account of more recent environmental data relating to the same lochs”.The company “willingly ...

A far right group branded as neo-Nazi has been condemned for using children to promote its white nationalist politics ahead of the by-election in South Lanarkshire next week. Patriotic Alternative (PA ...

How did we get here? The Supreme Court’s ruling came as a result of several legal challenges, which began after the Scottish Parliament passed a bill in 2018 to tackle underrepresentation of women on ...

Jen Ang, a human rights lawyer and director of legal firm Lawmanity, was shown the leaked emails. She said: “The Supreme Court decision does not require employers to provide only separate toilets for ...