The Ferret | Good journalism changes things

Arms company Raytheon benefits from border wall contracts

Fife arms firm profits from border walls contracts and ‘state repression’

November 26, 2020

Join us

The Ferret is a co-operative owned entirely by our readers and writers. You can get unlimited access to all our stories and support locally-owned Scottish media for just 69p per week.

Latest

Possilpark life expectancy

Claim Glasgow areas have lower life expectancy than Rwanda is False

Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim comparing the life expectancy of Glasgow to Rwanda.

byFerret Journalists

November 27, 2020

grouse

Grouse shooting to be banned where birds of prey are illegally killed

Grouse shooting will be banned on sporting estates where birds are prey are being illegally killed, the Scottish Government has announced.

November 26, 2020

stag

Police probe Highland stag shooting caught on film

Police Scotland has launched an investigation and is seeking public information about a stag that was filmed being shot and killed in a Highland sea loch.

byFerret Journalists

November 24, 2020

Environment

Wildlifet threatened by Dumfries and Galloway

Wildlife fears raised over Dumfries and Galloway pylon project

byCaitlin Logan

November 23, 2020

wind

Revealed: Scottish wind farms owned in tax havens

November 22, 2020

sika stag hunting

Highland hunting clients paying up to £8,000 to shoot ‘trophy’ animals

Alarm over plan to break up nuclear submarines at Hunterston

Campaigners condemn failure to prosecute greyhound trainer

Probe into ‘repulsive’ shooting of stag caught on film

Society

SNP diversity drive was ‘window dressing’, say party insiders

byKarin Goodwin

November 20, 2020

Poles apart

Poles apart: the Polish activists in Scotland fighting for equality back home

November 14, 2020

Families are living in poverty

Scottish Welfare Fund failing families in financial crisis

byKarin Goodwin

November 8, 2020

Homeless deaths

City council failed legal duty to homeless people, regulator finds

byKarin Goodwin

November 4, 2020

‘All I could see was water’: Asylum journeys across the channel

October 29, 2020

Asylum in crisis: stories from inside the ‘broken system’

byKarin Goodwin

October 23, 2020

The Ferret Underground

Join The Ferret Underground

More free monthly stories
Our weekly news email
Join our Facebook Group

Human rights

UAE

Scottish doctor named in UAE human rights abuses lawsuit

October 25, 2020

Police apologise to anti-fish farm campaigner over access

October 15, 2020

Anti-torture committee warns of ‘excessive force’ used on Scottish prisoners

byKarin Goodwin

October 8, 2020

Ferret Fact Service

Fact check: claim about Neil Ferguson’s Covid-19 predictions

November 19, 2020

face mask

Claim face masks are not effective against Covid-19 is False

October 30, 2020

Jaffa Cake

Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that Jaffa Cakes are biscuits is False

October 9, 2020

Claim that patients 45 or older at Scottish hospital were classed as DNR is False

Keir Starmer Scottish Labour

Claim 40 per cent of Scottish Labour members support independence is Unsupported

Internal Market Bill Westminster

Internal Market Bill: Claim SNP voted to scrap 545,000 jobs is False

lockdown protest

Fact check: Anti- lockdown Covid-19 claims

Claim Scots will be £2,000 worse off after independence is Unsupported

FFS Explains: How do people claim asylum in the UK?

More stories

Jeane Freeman FOI

SNP health minister wanted to stop freedom of information during Covid-19

byJames McEnaney

November 12, 2020

Police Scotland urged to act against neo-Nazi who threatened to rape baby

November 10, 2020

Disclosure Scotland spends £8m on temporary staff amid “chaos” with new IT system

byMargaret Taylor

November 9, 2020

water

Water industry watchdog attacked for climate ‘hypocrisy’ on flying

November 6, 2020

QAnon

Facebook removes Scottish pages linked to QAnon conspiracy

byBilly BriggsandbyJoshua Martin

November 5, 2020

Ferry firm ‘breaching own company policy’ with live animal exports

November 3, 2020

Insh

Island sold by National Trust of ‘considerable’ conservation importance

November 2, 2020

marine

Government leak reveals destruction of marine wildlife

November 1, 2020

Richard Cook dark money brexit

Scots Oil firm linked to man at centre of Brexit donation mystery collapses

byAndrew Learmonth

October 29, 2020