Finance, Politics
Dundee council ‘raided’ common good fund for £5.5k Lord Provost portrait
Dundee City Council has been criticised for using £5,500 of its Common Good Fund to pay for a portrait of the city’s Lord Provost.
Finance
Finance, Health
More than 100 football pitches sold off by Scottish councils
New data has revealed that Scottish councils have sold off more than 100 football pitches, which has been blamed on increased funding pressures.
Finance, Housing and homelessness, Politics
Property industry treats top Scots politicians to £5,000 dinner in Cannes
Top Scottish politicians quaffed champagne and dined on veal alongside property investors at a secret £5,000 VIP dinner in the south of France, The Ferret has learned.
Environment, Finance
Aberdeenshire residents urge council to say sorry for backing Trump
Aberdeenshire Council is facing calls to apologise for supporting the development of Donald Trump’s golf course, which failed to bring the jobs promised and damaged the environment.
Finance, Politics
Tories accused of ‘rank hypocrisy’ after £120k spent on Mundell’s foreign trips
The SNP has slammed Conservatives after it emerged that Scotland Secretary David Mundell spent £120,000 on trips abroad in the last three years.
Fact check, Finance, Society
Claim Scottish banknotes are not ‘legal tender’ in England is True
Ferret Fact Service looks at the argument over whether Scottish banknotes are 'legal tender' in England.
Finance, Politics
Scotland’s richest MSP’s firm pockets £185,000 in business grant ‘shambles’
Scotland's richest MSP is under pressure to return a £185,000 property development grant after bungling officials failed to claim it back on time.
Finance, Politics
Westminster bill risks ‘flood’ of foreign dark money into politics
A Westminster bill to scrap a time limit on donations to political parties from UK citizens living abroad could unleash a new wave of ‘dark money’ into politics, campaigners have warned.
Finance, Housing and homelessness
Scotland’s most indebted housing associations given Brexit warning
Scotland’s most indebted housing associations have insisted they could withstand a worst-case Brexit, following a warning from the Scottish Housing Regulator.