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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.
July 25, 2018
Electoral Commission probes £319,000 Tory ‘dark money’ trust
A secretive trust that gave £319,000 to the Scottish Conservatives is under examination by the Electoral Commission.
June 26, 2018
We need to scrap Trident, says former nuclear submarine commander
Plans to replace Trident should be cancelled to prevent humanity toppling “into a nuclear annihilation abyss,” says former nuclear commander.
June 25, 2018
Revealed: £50m taxpayers’ cash given to firms that folded
Taxpayers’ money amounting to more than £50m was given to companies in Scotland that were later liquidated, dissolved or put into administration.
April 12, 2018
Ferret Fact Service: a year of fact-checking by the numbers
Ferret Fact Service is one-year-old! Take a look at some of the numbers behind our fact-checking since April 2017.
April 2, 2018
Claim the SNP changed Brexit stance four times is Mostly False
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim by Labour leader Richard Leonard about the SNP's stance on Brexit.
February 8, 2018
Data firm targeting anti-Brexit Tories part of UK regulator probe
A data firm that ran Facebook adverts targeting Tory MPs opposed to Brexit is part of the UK data regulator's investigation into Brexit.
January 26, 2018
Revealed: North Sea oil assets snapped up by private firms
Increasing sales of North Sea oil assets to unlisted private companies have raised concerns over transparency and accountability in the sector,
January 24, 2018
Watchdogs should investigate secretive charity, says MSP
Calls for regulators to investigate secretive charity with links to Scottish private finance projects and £2.5m in the bank.
December 23, 2017