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2025-06-08 07:19:32

NEW: A Norwegian company has drawn up plans for Britain’s first deep-sea salmon farm in waters off Shetland, prompting concerns it is an “experiment in factory farming” that could damage the environment. https://theferret.scot/norwegian-firm-plans-deep-sea-salmon-farm-shetland/

2025-06-04 15:00:13

Citizens Advice Scotland told staff it had to enforce sex-based bathroom access due to legal obligations. But lawyers say the charity is misinterpreting the law — and putting itself at risk
https://theferret.scot/citizens-advice-trans-rights-bathroom-access/
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2025-06-03 07:00:11

🔵 NEW: More than 135,000 fish have died at a salmon farm in the northwest Highlands run by a Norwegian company in the last two years.
Find out more: https://theferret.scot/135000-fish-die-at-torridon-salmon-farm/
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2025-06-01 14:00:18

The UN says a palm oil company ultimately controlled by Jardine Matheson may be violating Indigenous land rights in Indonesia. The firm’s owners have donated millions to the Conservatives and Better Together.
Our latest: https://bit.ly/3SZFXTd
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2025-06-01 10:00:22

"The dominant model of industrial palm oil production is predicated on land theft, labour abuse and rampant deforestation"
https://theferret.scot/tory-firm-human-rights-allegations-in-indonesia/

2025-05-30 12:14:20

🔴 EXCLUSIVE: A far right group branded as neo-Nazi has been condemned for using children to promote its white nationalist politics ahead of the by-election in South Lanarkshire next week.
Read the full story: https://theferret.scot/neo-nazi-group-condemned-for-using-children/
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2025-05-25 08:00:20

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Campaigners warned that a “catastrophic” accident at Faslane could put lives at risk. The Trident submarines based there were a “chronic national security threat to Scotland” because they were “decrepit” and over-worked, they claimed.
Read the full story: https://theferret.scot/nuclear-incidents-radioactivity-faslane/

2025-05-25 08:00:18

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But the MoD has refused to say what actually happened in any of the incidents, or exactly when they occurred. There were five in 2023, four in 2024 and three in the first four months of 2025 – the highest for 17 years.

2025-05-25 08:00:14

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According to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the incidents at the Clyde nuclear submarine base had “actual or high potential for radioactive release to the environment”.

2025-05-25 08:00:12

🔴 NEW: There have been 12 nuclear incidents that could have leaked radioactivity at the Faslane naval base since 2023.
Find out more: https://theferret.scot/nuclear-incidents-radioactivity-faslane/
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2025-05-22 15:00:13

Scottish Government claimed it would be “antisemitic” to release information about secret meeting with Israel
https://theferret.scot/scottish-government-antisemitic-meeting-israel/

2025-05-10 09:00:05

"SLAPPs are a threat to democracy and we hope the consultation is the first step towards stamping them out"
https://theferret.scot/calls-tackle-abuse-lawsuits-freedom-of-expression/

2025-04-25 09:00:09

Not one of the seven companies that own the most-read Scottish titles are incorporated in Scotland
https://theferret.scot/third-of-scotland-newspapers-owned-in-us-tax-haven/
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2025-04-01 09:00:27

The anti-racism charity Hope not hate claimed Homeland is “leading young men, some of them teenagers, down a dark path, doing potentially irreparable damage to their futures in the process”
https://bit.ly/43y9V7n

2025-04-01 08:31:00

🔴 NEW: Seven new CalMac ferries will be built in Poland, not at Scotland’s nationalised Ferguson shipyard. Ferret Fact Service looked at how the decision was made — and whether the Scottish Government could have intervened
https://theferret.scot/ffs-explains-the-calmac-ferries-contract/

2025-03-28 07:42:24

💰 The Money Trail continues. This Sunday, we're publishing the next instalment in our deep dive into illicit finance in Scotland — this time, we’re heading from working class Muirhouse to the Seychelles.
Find out more: https://theferret.scot/the-money-trail-investigating-finance/
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2025-03-24 10:00:10

"The principle that the polluter pays should apply equally to both the nuclear industry and the defence ministry”
https://theferret.scot/nuclear-clean-up-vulcan-mod/
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2025-03-23 08:00:07

🔴 NEW: The Ministry of Defence has been accused of trying to avoid responsibility for cleaning up a military nuclear site on the north coast of Scotland by making it “someone else’s problem”.
Find out more: https://theferret.scot/nuclear-clean-up-vulcan-mod/
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2025-03-22 10:00:17

"Planning officers deserve credit for their dogged determination in pursuing ICL but you can’t ‘put right’ the loss of one of the world’s most precious habitats and a valuable carbon store"
https://theferret.scot/israeli-enforcement-peat-extraction-scotland/
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2025-03-14 08:00:19

🔴 NEW: The head of Edinburgh university has been accused of ‘greed’ for taking a second job just months before he announced staff cuts.
Find out more: https://theferret.scot/edinburgh-uni-staff-rage-principals-second-job-cuts/
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2025-03-11 12:00:19

Decisions that shape lives shouldn’t happen in the dark. Investigative journalism brings them into the open. The Ferret is committed to reporting with depth, accuracy, and impact. Support us with a monthly donation: https://theferret.scot/subscribe
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2025-03-11 08:00:21

🔴 NEW: Giant supertrawlers routinely fish in Scotland’s marine protected areas, damaging precious marine life and fish populations, despite the UK Government having had the powers to stop them since Brexit.
Find out more: https://theferret.scot/supertrawlers-fish-scotland-marine-protected-areas/
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2025-03-09 12:00:09

An investigation by animal welfare activists has found trainers are driving caged greyhounds, without the correct licences, on round trips of up to ten hours to places as far afield as Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands
https://theferret.scot/trainers-racing-greyhounds-transporting-illegally/
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2025-03-04 14:00:14

“It’s concerning to see someone from the AfD, which at this point is a major party in Germany, come to a gathering of what is effectively a very small group of white supremacists”
https://theferret.scot/afd-politician-handed-weapons-far-right-party-event/

2025-02-16 12:00:08

"Prisons should never be a place for the pursuit of private profit at the expense of vulnerable people”
https://theferret.scot/addiewell-3m-shareholders-safety-rising-deaths/
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2025-02-13 10:00:07

"Scotland deserves a reliable, affordable rail service but the SNP is squandering the opportunities of public ownership and contracting out its responsibilities"
https://theferret.scot/scotrail-2m-contract-firm-criticised-performance/
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2025-02-11 16:00:15

Trident project rated “unachievable” third year running
https://theferret.scot/trident-nuclear-unachievable-third-year/
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2025-02-10 08:00:25

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These include building new facilities at the Faslane nuclear base, near Helensburgh, and dismantling nuclear submarines at Rosyth in Fife. The construction of the entire future nuclear-powered fleets of submarines – Astute, Dreadnought and Aukus – was also rated amber.
Campaigners attacked the UK nuclear weapons programme as “an unaffordable shambles” and a “disastrous money pit”. They have demanded its cancellation, and asked for the money saved to be spent on public services.

2025-02-10 08:00:24

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The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) has again given the manufacture of new reactors to power replacement submarines its lowest rating of “red” for 2023-24. There are “major issues” that do not seem to be “manageable or resolvable”, it said.
The IPA has badged eight other major UK nuclear weapons projects, with a combined overall cost of over £55bn, as “amber”. This means they are facing “significant issues” which require “management attention”.

2025-02-10 08:00:23

🔴 NEW: A £4bn project to help replace nuclear-armed Trident submarines on the Clyde has been branded as “unachievable” for the third year running by a UK government watchdog.
Find out more: https://theferret.scot/trident-nuclear-unachievable-third-year/
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2025-02-09 15:00:35

“The Scottish Government has chosen not to channel money towards rural communities to build community wealth, or to stimulate small scale rural enterprise, through subsidised forestry”
https://theferret.scot/politicians-billionaires-offshore-forestry-handouts/
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2025-01-15 08:00:15

With protests planned across Scotland, UK farmers are voicing anger at tax changes. But there are concerns some groups are using the protests to fuel conspiracies about net-zero and more.
Find out more: https://theferret.scot/are-conspiracy-groups-hijack-farmers-protests/
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