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The ten beaches in Scotland where swimming could damage your health

Rob Edwards on May 31, 2019June 2, 2019

Ten popular bathing waters around the southern Scottish coastline are so badly contaminated with human and animal faeces that they are a danger to public health.

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Scotland missing targets to prevent wildlife extinction

Rob Edwards on June 4, 2018April 6, 2019

Scotland is failing to meet international targets to prevent wildlife from becoming extinct, according to the latest assessment for the Scottish Government.

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Plastic pollution prompts calls for curbs on industry

Rob Edwards on December 11, 2017April 18, 2019

Mounting evidence on plastic wastes contaminating beaches, polluting the oceans and harming wildlife is putting pressure on industry.

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Exposed: the abusive pirates trying to avoid fishing laws

Rob Edwards on December 5, 2016

An intelligence network aimed at helping hundreds of fishermen avoid getting caught fishing illegally has been condemned as “blatant piracy”.

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Cover-up alleged after pollution from oil rig revealed

Rob Edwards on September 5, 2016

The UK coastguard agency has been accused of a pollution “cover-up” over the oil rig that ran aground in northwest Scotland last month.

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Oil rig firm under fire for accidents, leaks and safety breaches

Rob Edwards on August 15, 2016

The oil multinational whose rig ran aground on the island of Lewis was implicated in one of the world’s worst environmental disasters and has suffered leaks in the North Sea.

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Marine Conservation Society

Environment

The ten beaches in Scotland where swimming could damage your health

Environment

Scotland missing targets to prevent wildlife extinction

Environment

Plastic pollution prompts calls for curbs on industry

Environment

Exposed: the abusive pirates trying to avoid fishing laws

Environment

Cover-up alleged after pollution from oil rig revealed

Environment

Oil rig firm under fire for accidents, leaks and safety breaches

Seal shooting by fish farms to be banned to save exports to US

Claim Holyrood meets once a week during lockdown is false

Fergus Ewing attacked over 25 meetings with fish farm firms

Two Scottish councils lending £15m for English council to gamble with