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FFS explains: Immigration and emigration after Brexit
Ferret Fact Service looks at the situation for those wanting moving to and from the EU after Brexit.
FFS Explains: Travelling to the EU after Brexit
Ferret Fact Service looks at what has changed for Scots travelling to the EU after Brexit.
‘We screamed for help and no one came’: Belarus expats on regime’s crackdown
Belarusians living in Scotland are watching on horrified as the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko cracks down on political protests.
Claim Internal Market Bill could end Scotland’s free prescriptions and tuition is False
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim about the impact of the Internal Market Bill on tuition fees and prescription charges.
Fife arms firm profits from border walls contracts and ‘state repression’
An arms company in Fife, funded by the taxpayer, has won dozens of contracts globally for border security walls, prompting claims it is profiting from “state repression and conflict".
SNP diversity drive was ‘window dressing’, say party insiders
An SNP drive to increase diversity has led to just one extra BAME candidate being selected so far, leading to calls to turn diversity 'rhetoric into reality'.
Poles apart: the Polish activists in Scotland fighting for equality back home
Poland’s hostile environment for women and LGBT+ people has come to the fore under the rule of the Law and Justice Party. Now Polish activists living in Scotland say its time for their adopted county to take notice.
SNP health minister wanted to stop freedom of information during Covid-19
Scotland's health secretary wanted to suspend freedom of information legislation in response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to internal government emails.
Disclosure Scotland spends £8m on temporary staff amid “chaos” with new IT system
Scotland’s criminal records checking agency is continuing to spend millions of pounds to manually deal with disclosure applications more than a year after an IT system £44 million over budget went live.
