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Fergus Ewing attacked over 25 meetings with fish farm firms
The rural economy secretary, Fergus Ewing, has been accused of breaching the ministerial code by failing to record 25 meetings with the fish farming industry.
Do not give Ineos £500m Covid bail-out, say campaigners
Over a hundred campaigners are asking the Scottish and UK governments not to bail out the petrochemical giant, Ineos, during the coronavirus crisis.
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.
Information law must be toughened to prevent evasion, say MSPs
MSPs are recommending a new law requiring Scottish Government meetings to be minuted to prevent any “deliberate attempt” to evade freedom of information rules.
“Wholesale slaughter”: around 100 beavers shot in Tayside
Farmers and landowners have killed around a hundred wild beavers in Tayside in a cull condemned as "sickening" and "shameful" by campaigners.
Relief as opposition parties move to restore information rights
Laws weakening freedom of information rights in Scotland look set to be repealed after just a few weeks because opposition MSPs have united against them.
Alarm over peat extraction plans in south west Scotland
Plans to prolong the mining of peat at two sites in Dumfries and Galloway have alarmed environmental groups, who want a ban to protect the climate.
Covid-19 planning laws ‘captured’ by property developers
Rule changes during the Covid-19 pandemic favour property developers and risk shutting the public out from the planning system, say Scottish civic groups.
Westminster bid to re-launch toxic plutonium reactors
The UK government is trying to resurrect plutonium-powered reactors despite abandoning a multi-billion bid to make them work in Scotland.