Nuclear weapons
Trident nuclear plans “unachievable”, says UK government watchdog
Westminster spending watchdog condemns UK government plans to replace Trident as “in doubt” or “unachievable”.
Fact check
SNP claim of 2500% increase in child food bank use is Mostly True
Ferret Fact Service looks at the claim that the Conservatives have overseen a 2500 per cent increase in children using food banks in Scotland.
Fact check
Nicola Sturgeon’s Repeal Bill devolution “power grab” claim is Half True
Ferret Fact Service looks at Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that the EU Repeal Bill is a “naked power grab” by the UK government.
Politics
Yes they can: taxpayers billed £23,000 for Obama dinner tickets
Taxpayer funded bodies paid up to £1,200 a head for staff and guests to attend an exclusive dinner with former US President Barack Obama.
Fact check
FFS explains: how does EU trade work?
Ferret Fact Service takes a look at how European Union trade works, and what the UK’s options may be after Brexit.
Nuclear weapons
Mordechai Vanunu: a defiant spirit
The whistleblower who revealed Israel’s secret nuclear missile programme and was jailed for 18 years has been sentenced again.
Environment
Oil giants under fire after breakdowns trigger nine days of flaring
The oil firms that run a Fife petrochemical complex are facing a legal crackdown for breaching pollution limits and endangering health by flaring.
Fact check
Brexit trade deals with the US and Australia are not ‘in the bag’
Ferret Fact Service assesses Lord Digby Jones’s tweet that trade deals with the US and Australia are ‘in the bag’.
Nuclear weapons
Historic vote to ban nuclear bombs praised by Sturgeon – but dissed by Westminster
Backed by Nicola Sturgeon but boycotted by Westminster, 122 countries agree a treaty for the “irreversible elimination” of nuclear weapons.