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Glasgow
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Named: the city streets badly polluted by traffic fumes
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.
Serco loses contract to house asylum seekers in Scotland
Serco has lost a multi-million pound contract to house asylum seekers in Scotland to Mears Group, a UK-wide housing and social care provider.
Review promised on Scottish homeless death statistics
Scotland's national records office says it will undertake a review that could see it count the deaths of homeless people for the first time.
Charities claim refugees facing eviction due to Home Office errors
Dozens of refugees facing lock changes in Glasgow may be entitled to Home Office accommodation and should not be evicted, it is claimed.
MoD took seven years to conduct ‘urgent’ review of nuclear convoy dangers
The Ministry of Defence has failed to complete a review of the public hazards of nuclear bomb convoys despite being told by its watchdog in 2011 it was urgent.
Revealed: £56m cuts to disability payments hit Scotland’s poorest hardest
Many of Scotland's poorest communities have been hit hardest by cuts to disability benefits with over £56 million lost in annual payments, The Ferret can reveal.
Claim that Glasgow drug death rate is over 1000% higher than EU is Mostly True
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim from Paul Sweeney MP about drug-related deaths in Glasgow.
‘I am like a prisoner again’ – Glasgow’s destitute Eritreans
With no access to work or housing, destitute Eritreans in Glasgow have no prospect of returning to a homeland where they would face prison - or worse.
Revealed: the ten most polluted streets in Scotland
Toxic exhaust fumes are polluting ten city streets across Scotland in breach of legal safety limits that should have been met eight years ago.