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Fact check: Anas Sarwar claims SNP are failing to alleviate rising costs
The crisis was debated on the BBC’s Debate Night programme, with Anas Sarwar criticising the Scottish Government for not doing enough to help people in this country.
May 23, 2022
Fact check: UK Government claim about employment levels is false
All eyes have been on the UK’s employment levels since Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic hit the economy in quick succession.
May 20, 2022
Councils could be “massively underestimating” their climate emissions
Concerns have been raised that Scottish local authorities are “massively underestimating” their carbon footprints, after an external review of one council’s climate pollution saw its reported emissions quadruple in one year.
May 14, 2022
Asylum seeking children missed months of school while in overcrowded B&Bs
Asylum children in Scotland have spent months living in overcrowded B&B rooms with their families and struggled to access schooling.
May 8, 2022
Claim SNP delivered over 105,000 affordable homes is True
Ferret Fact Service looks into an SNP claim about affordable housing.
May 4, 2022
FFS explains: What powers do councils have?
Ferret Fact Service looks at what powers councils have, ahead of the upcoming local elections.
May 3, 2022
Councils spent almost £300m on private firms ‘profiting from misery’ of homelessness
Councils have been accused of a “moral failure” to provide decent housing to homeless people and of overseeing a “fiscal disaster” as costs top quarter of a billion.
May 1, 2022
Distressed prisoners made 13,000 calls to Samaritans in six months
Phone calls made by prisoners to the Samaritans more than doubled in just six months,
April 22, 2022
Salmon farm pollution rises 10 per cent
Seabed and pesticide pollution of Scottish lochs by the salmon farming industry increased by over ten per cent in a year.
April 19, 2022