Dundee

Environment, Health

Air pollution from traffic is getting worse on some Scottish streets

Rob Edwards on January 19, 2020January 22, 2020

Air pollution from exhaust fumes has increased on streets in Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Falkirk and Perth, according to the latest government monitoring.

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Health, Society

‘Persisting deprivation’: inside Dundee’s drugs crisis

Billy Briggs on November 26, 2019November 28, 2019

The Ferret and HuffPost investigate how Dundee's drug death crisis is being driven by government austerity policy.

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Finance, Politics

Dundee council ‘raided’ common good fund for £5.5k Lord Provost portrait

Jamie Mann, Ally Tibbitt on July 5, 2019August 19, 2019

Dundee City Council has been criticised for using £5,500 of its Common Good Fund to pay for a portrait of the city’s Lord Provost.

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Employment, Health

Army under fire for targeting recruitment adverts during ‘January Blues’

Joe Lo on June 21, 2019June 23, 2019

The British Army has been criticised for targeting online recruitment adverts at young, risk-taking, working class Scots suffering the "January Blues".

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Health, Society

Insight: Dundee’s drugs crisis and those left behind

Jennifer Jones on February 5, 2019April 6, 2019

The drug-related death count in Dundee jumped from 57 to 73 in 2017, and is almost double the national average.

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Environment

Named: the city streets badly polluted by traffic fumes

Rob Edwards on January 27, 2019April 6, 2019

Busy streets in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee are being polluted by exhaust fumes in breach of legal safety limits introduced in 2010, according to the latest government monitoring.

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Environment

Revealed: the ten most polluted streets in Scotland

Rob Edwards on January 21, 2018January 22, 2018

Toxic exhaust fumes are polluting ten city streets across Scotland in breach of legal safety limits that should have been met eight years ago.

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Crime and justice

Banned terrorist group is behind latest neo-Nazi outfit in Scotland

Billy Briggs on January 4, 2018

A new neo-Nazi organisation called System Resistance Network is recruiting in Scotland. Campaigners say it is run by a banned terrorist group.

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Finance, Education

Parents kept in dark over private finance school defects

Ally Tibbitt on April 10, 2017September 14, 2019

Five schools in Angus and three schools in Dundee had defects that were similar to those found in Edinburgh private finance schools after a wall collapsed.

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Dundee

Environment, Health

Air pollution from traffic is getting worse on some Scottish streets

Health, Society

‘Persisting deprivation’: inside Dundee’s drugs crisis

Finance, Politics

Dundee council ‘raided’ common good fund for £5.5k Lord Provost portrait

Employment, Health

Army under fire for targeting recruitment adverts during ‘January Blues’

Health, Society

Insight: Dundee’s drugs crisis and those left behind

Environment

Named: the city streets badly polluted by traffic fumes

Environment

Revealed: the ten most polluted streets in Scotland

Crime and justice

Banned terrorist group is behind latest neo-Nazi outfit in Scotland

Finance, Education

Parents kept in dark over private finance school defects

Private finance schemes cost Scottish taxpayers £40bn, says spending watchdog

Scottish homeless deaths to be officially published from next month

Police Scotland taser use up sixfold in four years

2,553 devices awaiting digital analysis, say police