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Ross Greer
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Revealed: fire safety and staff problems at nuclear sites
Nuclear bomb sites across the UK have fire safety problems as well as shortages of safety regulators and engineers, according to a Ministry of Defence report.
Fife arms firm profits from border walls contracts and ‘state repression’
An arms company in Fife, funded by the taxpayer, has won dozens of contracts globally for border security walls, prompting claims it is profiting from “state repression and conflict".
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.
Cracks in Hunterston nuclear reactor predicted to rise to 1,000
Running an ageing nuclear reactor at Hunterston in North Ayrshire for another year could cause cracks in its core to rise 65 per cent to nearly a thousand.
Plan to run Hunterston’s cracked reactors for another year
The energy company EDF is planning to operate a cracked nuclear power station at Hunterston in North Ayrshire for another year before closing it down for good.
Twenty children killed in Yemen since UK resumed selling bombs to Saudi Arabia
Twenty children have been killed in Yemen since the UK government resumed arms sales to Saudi Arabia just over one month ago.
UK government broke inspection rules at Scottish bomb factory
The UK government has failed to meet its official criteria for conducting “regular and thorough inspections” of arms facilities every three years at a controversial bomb factory in Scotland.
MSPs reject Scottish Government curbs on freedom of information rights
The Scottish Government has been forced to withdraw all the emergency relaxations it made to freedom of information (FoI) law in April.
University urged to end Saudi deal after rise in beheadings
A Scottish university has been condemned for a secretive contract with Saudi Arabia after a report that the Gulf state executed 184 people last year.