MoD confirms potential Scottish bomb sites after Ferret revelations
Government names areas being assessed for new munitions plants after The Ferret uncovers hidden details in a botched FoI response.
Mind the Health Gap
18 articles
Swimming with the Reservoir Frogs: could prescribing nature support healthy lives?
The skies are grey and foreboding at Edinburgh’s Portobello beach but for the nine regulars from The Ripple Project’
‘These are our people’: How a street-based therapy service is tackling San Francisco’s drugs crisis
In a side street off a busy thoroughfare in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMA) neighbourhood, dozens of people
Why do more men need someone to talk to? The Ferret investigates…the health gap, part three
Our deaths by suicide rate is not coming down because we have too many poor people. They don’t have
How does finding connection prevent drug deaths? The Ferret investigates…the health gap podcast, part two
If it wasn’t for safer injecting sites I wouldn’t be alive today that’s for sure because I
Why does a good start matter for our children’s health? The Ferret investigates…the health gap podcast, part one
“We know that the first 1000 days are the most important time in a child’s life. If you get
How prescribing safe supply is helping drug users in Canada turn their lives around
The morning sun begins to sweep slowly across the city of Vancouver as the traffic noise starts to build. In
‘More than numbers to us’: how a homeless project is preventing Scottish drug deaths
“The things I’ve seen…” Laura – script gripped in one hand, her other on her hip – delivers her line with
Trafficking survivors: the Polish activists supporting Ukrainian women fleeing war horrors
Content warning: violence against women, sexual violence. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022, it created
How a Nigerian NGO is pushing back against period stigma…one boy at a time
Fourteen-year-old Opeyemi Adedeji was one of countless boys in the Nigerian capital, Lagos, who teased female classmates about their periods,
The tampon dispatch – Perth’s solution to menstrual equity
Once every four or five weeks, Tampon Taxi driver Jayne Cafferty picks up a bundle of parcels on her way
Scottish GPs call for housing developers to contribute to healthcare
In 2022, a record number of new houses were built in Midlothian, with a total of 822 completed in the
The rescue ship – a solution to the GP crisis?
With most appointments with GPs scheduled for just ten minutes, The Ferret heard from doctors based in Scotland’s most