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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'.
Highland hunting clients paying up to £8,000 to shoot ‘trophy’ animals
A company promoting the trophy hunting of animals in northwest Scotland offers people the chance to shoot rare stags for up to £8,000.
Alarm over plan to break up nuclear submarines at Hunterston
The company that runs the port at Hunterston in North Ayrshire wants to use it to break up the radioactive hulks of defunct nuclear submarines.
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.
Scottish Welfare Fund failing families in financial crisis
Campaigners claim the Scottish Welfare Fund is a “postcode lottery” with success rates and amounts granted varying across the country.
Facebook removes Scottish pages linked to QAnon conspiracy
Facebook has removed a number of Scottish groups on its platform identified by The Ferret as being associated with a far-right cult called QAnon.
Scots Oil firm linked to man at centre of Brexit donation mystery collapses
A Scottish oil and gas company – linked to the man behind the Democratic Unionist Party’s mysterious £435,000 Brexit donation – owes at least £4.5m.
Deleted police records on thousands of Scots still held by other public bodies
Nearly 500,000 people have been removed from a police database - but other public bodies who received the records could still have them.