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Claim that patients 45 or older at Scottish hospital were classed as DNR is False
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim that DNR orders were placed on patients 45 and older in an East Kilbride hospital.
October 7, 2020
Human rights concerns raised over cuts to social care
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has raised “deep concerns” as new research highlights many people relying on social care packages at home have had those reduced or completely withdrawn.
October 6, 2020
Revealed: 16 asylum seekers died in six months
Sixteen people seeking asylum in the UK died in six months, leading to a call for the “institutionally racist” Home Office to be scrapped to save lives.
October 4, 2020
QAnon: Scottish child abuse protests linked to US conspiracy cult
Protests against child trafficking in Scottish cities have links to a far-right conspiracy cult from America called "Save our Children" QAnon.
September 29, 2020
Internal Market Bill: Claim SNP voted to scrap 545,000 jobs is False
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim from the Scottish Conservatives that the SNP voted to scrap 545,000 jobs.
September 22, 2020
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".
September 20, 2020
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.
September 15, 2020
Ministers warned on Covid freedom of information failures
The Scottish Government’s freedom of information performance has collapsed during the pandemic and undermined public accountability, warns watchdog.
September 10, 2020
Private developers get £100m from housing fund but build just 700 affordable homes
A housing fund which is a precursor to the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) has awarded more than £100m to private developers who have built just 700 affordable houses.
September 9, 2020