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Scots Oil firm linked to man at centre of Brexit donation mystery collapses
A Scottish oil and gas company – linked to the man behind the Democratic Unionist Party’s mysterious £435,000 Brexit donation – owes at least £4.5m.
National Trust deemed ‘imperious’ for selling Scottish island
The National Trust for Scotland sold off the 90-acre Isle of Insh for £353,000, even though it's former owner wanted it to stay in a natural state.
Scottish farmers ‘forced out’ of business by ‘mega dairies’
Farmers' union calls for new rules to stop “mega dairies” and supermarkets paying low milk prices and offering “unfair” contracts to dairy farmers, who say they are being “forced out” of business".
Podcast: Nightlife culture under threat from Covid-19 restrictions
The Government’s lack of engagement with the country’s clubs and music venues – is “unacceptable” according to industry chiefs.
Golf resort linked to Lord’s estate handed £100k Covid bailout
A Scottish Government agency has been criticised after handing £100,000 in Covid-19 bailout funds to a luxury golfing development on land owned by the Earl of Moray.
Claim Scots will be £2,000 worse off after independence is Unsupported
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim using GERS figures to say that Scottish independence would cost each person £2,000.
Billionaire-owned shooting properties offered tax relief
Nine out of ten of Scotland’s shooting properties, including some owned by billionaires, are exempt from paying £10.5 million in annual business rates, it is revealed.
Probe sparks calls for Scots property ownership data to be free
A series of investigations by The Ferret spark calls for the Scottish Government to publish Scottish property ownership data for free.
Council faced £700k monthly PFI waste bill even if service was stopped
Secret papers obtained by The Ferret reveal Dumfries and Galloway council were facing £700k monthly PFI waste bill from contractor, even if the service stopped.