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Tibetans forced to display pictures of Chinese state leaders
Tibetans are being forced to display pictures of Xi Jinping and other Chinese Communist Party leaders in their homes, according to human rights campaigners.
Claim that the first person to receive the Covid-19 trial vaccine has died is False
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim that the first person who participated in the Oxford University vaccine trial has died.
Westminster bid to re-launch toxic plutonium reactors
The UK government is trying to resurrect plutonium-powered reactors despite abandoning a multi-billion bid to make them work in Scotland.
Scottish NHS charities get £525,000 boost from ‘amazing’ covid-19 appeal
Scottish NHS charities have received £35,000 each to help them support NHS workers, volunteers and patients affected by the Covid-19 outbreak.
University urged to end Saudi deal after rise in beheadings
A Scottish university has been condemned for a secretive contract with Saudi Arabia after a report that the Gulf state executed 184 people last year.
Supermarket slammed as rural communities hit by weeks of food shortages
Some residents in the Argyll and Bute area have found “either bare or nearly bare” shelves at their local Co-op stores throughout the Covid-19 lockdown.
Asylum seekers’ lives ‘put at risk’ by decision to move them to hotels
Hundreds of asylum seekers have been moved out of their flats and into Glasgow hotels where they are unable to isolate amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Channel 4 programme accused of promoting anti-Traveller myths
A Channel 4 documentary called The Truth About Traveller Crime focused on crimes allegedly perpetrated by Travellers. Campaigners say it promoted “negative myths and stereotypes” about the community.
‘An awful way to welcome visitors’: Dumfries and Galloway’s derelict buildings
We investigate the derelict buildings that have blighted Dumfries and Galloway - and what's being done about them.