Environment
70 per cent say green belts should be better protected
A majority of people in Scotland want the green spaces around urban areas to be better defended from property developers.
Rob Edwards
Environment
Growing support for compulsory neutering of pet cats
A new campaign to force pet owners to neuter their cats to reduce suffering and save wildcats has won widespread support.
Environment
Scottish ministers rapped for failing on community rights
Scotland is facing a reprimand at a United Nations summit for failing to give communities rights to fight damaging building developments.
Environment
Filmmakers urged to drop support for Pentland studio plan
A plan for a £250 million Scottish film studio on the outskirts of Edinburgh has been delayed, causing critics to question its future.
Environment
Buccleuch wind farm ‘could unearth lead contamination’ from old mines
The Duke of Buccleuch’s plan to build a wind farm in southwest Scotland is facing fierce opposition from residents and politicians.
Environment
Climate change: the ‘devastating’ risks facing Scotland
Scotland’s vital infrastructure is under threat from coastal erosion and flooding, according to official assessments of climate pollution.
Politics
Scottish taxpayers give £110,000 handout to Trump
Scottish taxpayers have given Donald Trump a £110,000 handout to help his £11 million golf business in Ayrshire, The Ferret can reveal.
Nuclear weapons
Government ‘failing to protect Scotland from nuclear convoy crash’
Scotland is “wholly unprepared” to deal with an accident or an attack on the nuclear bomb convoys that travel across the country.
Environment
Birds of prey killed or missing at grouse shooting estates
Over 70 birds of prey have been killed or gone missing at grouse shooting estates across Scotland since 2004.