Crime and justice, Fact check
Claim you can get cocaine faster than pizza in Glasgow is Half True
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim that it is quicker to get cocaine than pizza in Glasgow.
Ferret Journalists
Fact check, Politics
Claim Richard Leonard supported the Leave campaign in Brexit vote is False
Ferret Fact Service looks at the claim by Keith Brown MSP that Richard Leonard backed the Leave campaign in the EU referendum.
Fact check, Housing and homelessness
Claim Scotland spends 10 times more per person on social housing than England is Half True
Ferret Fact Service looks at the the differing levels of spending on social housing between Scotland and England.
Politics
Tory ‘dark money’ donor fined by Electoral Commission
The Irvine Unionist Club has been fined by the Electoral Commission after not properly reporting a £100,000 to the Conservative Party.
Fact check, Politics
Claim 8,000 armed forces personnel will be affected by Scottish tax changes is Mostly True
Ferret Fact Service looks at the number of army personnel affected by the change in Scottish income tax.
Fact check, Housing and homelessness
Claim that SNP built more social rent homes than Labour Mostly True
Ferret Fact Service looks at the claim that Scottish Labour overestimated the number of social rent homes they built in power, and if the SNP actually built more.
Fact check, Politics
Claim that fire service paying VAT was ‘SNP policy’ is Mostly False
Ferret Fact Service looks at the facts around the VAT exemption for the merged Scottish fire service.
Politics
Former Tory MP quits ‘dark money’ trust
A Holyrood lobbyist and former Tory MP has quit a “dark money” trust funding the Scottish Conservatives, following an investigation by The Ferret.
Fact check
Claim 60 per cent of Scots farmers voted for Brexit, Tories and against independence is Mostly False
Ferret Fact Service looks at a viral image making a number of claims about the voting record of Scottish farmers.