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‘An awful way to welcome visitors’: Dumfries and Galloway’s derelict buildings
We investigate the derelict buildings that have blighted Dumfries and Galloway - and what's being done about them.
April 21, 2020
House builders demand more Help to Buy subsidies from government
Lobbyists acting for the housing industry have demanded continued Help to Buy subsidies from the Scottish Government, despite criticism that the cash simply inflates house prices.
December 16, 2019
1km emergency zone around cracked reactors will do, says nuclear firm
EDF Energy under fire for advising that the emergency zone to protect people around cracked nuclear reactors at Hunterston could be shrunk to a kilometre.
November 22, 2019
Safety fears as Hunterston’s cracked nuclear reactors start to crumble
The graphite cores of two ageing nuclear reactors at Hunterston in North Ayrshire have begun to crumble as cracks spread.
October 17, 2019
Scotland’s top civil servant took 58 flights while telling staff not to fly
The Scottish Government’s civil service chief, Leslie Evans, has flown to and from London four times more often than going by train while telling her 6,000 officials to “avoid domestic air travel".
October 16, 2019
Scottish Government rejects legal ban on fracking
Scottish ministers have rejected calls for a watertight legal ban on fracking, promising instead that they would use planning policy to block the technology indefinitely.
October 3, 2019
Climate ‘under threat’ from new fossil fuel facilities in Scotland
New fossil fuel developments planned across Scotland will lock the country into polluting the climate for decades and help “fry the planet”, campaigners are warning.
September 15, 2019
Ammonia air pollution risk as Scotland’s dairy herds grow
The growing size Scotland’s dairy herds could boost ammonia gas pollution, which contributes to millions of deaths worldwide, experts have warned.
September 1, 2019
Scottish Government move to renew Ineos fracking licence ‘disappointing’
Scottish ministers have come under fire after extending a licence for the Grangemouth petrochemical giant, Ineos, to frack for shale gas in the central belt.
July 1, 2019