Fact check, Society
Fact check: Does the Scottish Government have the power to help WASPI women?
Ferret Fact Service looks at the state pension equalisation and who has the power to help the women affected.
Scottish Parliament
Fact check, Politics
Claim SNP budget gives tax cut to Government ministers is Mostly True
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim about income tax proposals in the 2019 Scottish budget from Scottish Labour.
Arms trade, Environment, Finance
Scottish Parliament to review ethics of pension investments
Holyrood's £82m pension fund is to be reviewed after campaigners questioned investments in arms, fossil fuels, tobacco and iPhone factories linked to mass suicides.
Fact check, Politics
Claim UK did not respect result of 1979 Scottish referendum is Mostly False
Ferret Fact Service looks at the claim that the UK did not honour the result of the 1979 Scottish devolution referendum.
Fact check, Politics
Claim that Scottish Parliament banned gingerbread men is Mostly False
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim that gingerbread men had been replaced by gingerbread persons.
Crime and justice, Fact check, Politics
Claim police numbers up in Scotland and down in England and Wales is Half True
Ferret Fact Service looks at the claim by Ian Blackford MP that police numbers are up in Scotland but down in England and Wales.
Arms trade, Environment, Human rights, International, Nuclear weapons
MSP pensions invested in iPhone firm with mass suicides
The pension fund for Scotland’s MSPs has invested over £100,000 in a Taiwanese company blamed for mass suicides at its iPhone factories - as well as in Russia, weapons, fossil fuels and tobacco.
Environment
MSPs demand tougher regulation for fish farming
Scotland's fish farming industry must bow to tougher environmental regulation if wants to expand, a committee of MSPs has concluded.
Fact check, Politics
Claim Richard Leonard supported the Leave campaign in Brexit vote is False
Ferret Fact Service looks at the claim by Keith Brown MSP that Richard Leonard backed the Leave campaign in the EU referendum.