Call to scrap ‘horrifying’ 50 years of British nuclear weapons celebration
Plans by the Royal Navy to celebrate 50 years of British nuclear weapons at sea are "horrifying" and should be abandoned, say peace campaigners.
Revealed: nearly 3,000 licenses issued for killing wildlife
Special licences allow protected species in Scotland such as hedgehogs, mountain hares and birds in decline to be killed or disturbed.
Ban UK citizens going to China for organ transplants, say Scots MPs
Scots MPs are among dozens of politicians from all parties at Westminster calling for a ban on UK citizens travelling to China for organ transplants.
Chronic pain: £270,000 ‘talking shop’ slammed as frontline services stretched
A university research project was given nearly £300,000 of taxpayers' money to research chronic pain by the Scottish Government as hundreds of patients wait months for treatment.
Anti-EU party standing for Leith ‘shameless’ for joining EU-funded group
An anti-EU party standing for Edinburgh council is a member of a far right group in Europe which receives funding from the European Commission.
Fife arms firm snubs meeting with MPs over Yemen bombs
Bombs made by arms multi-national Raytheon has been linked to war crimes in Yemen, but the company did not speak to investigating MPs.
US Christian right ‘dark money’ backed anti-abortion Glasgow students
A student council at one of Scotland's leading universities has criticised the intervention of 'dark money' from a right wing US Christian organisation in a row over freedom of speech.
More than 400 children killed or injured by airstrikes in Yemen
At least 443 children in Yemen have been killed or injured in air strikes over the past year, according to a leading global charity.
Home Office ‘utterly failing’ in treatment of detained immigrants, say MPs
A new report by an influential Westminster committee accuses the UK government of "serious failings" in the detention of immigrants.