Black-and-white image of a man in golf clothing walking on a course, with text headline: “Revealed: Trump golf resort the only one among Scotland’s top courses to breach environmental rules.”

🔴NEW: We asked about the environmental records of Scotland’s top-rated golf courses. Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire resort was the only one found to have breached its environmental licence in the last three years.

Our latest: www.theferret.scot/trump-golf-scotland-envi...

The €500mn hole in Chernobyl’s roof The remains of the world’s worst nuclear accident were contained in a vast steel structure. Then the Russian drone hit

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MSPs accuse Scottish Government of lack of 'urgency' on salmon farm reform MSPs have written to the Scottish Government saying lack of progress in tackling the problems in salmon farming risks “eroding public…

A report @vickyallan.bsky.social on the Scottish Parliament's rural affairs committee criticising ministers for not doing enough to make salmon farming sustainable.

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FACT CHECK: Campaigners and online posts say new legislation around abortion recently passed by the House of Lords means "abortion up to birth" is now legal in the UK. 

This is Mostly False

www.theferret.scot/claim-abortion-to-birth-...

MSPs have criticised the Scottish Government for making too little progress on salmon farming reform. The Scottish Parliament’s rural affairs committee says key recommendations on fish welfare, transparency and protecting wild salmon have still not been delivered.

In the last ten years @theferret.scot has published more than 80 stories on the salmon farming industry.

www.theferret.scot/tag/salmon/

The committee "expects the Scottish Government to set out a work plan in the early part of the next Parliament" to "ensure the industry is placed on a sustainable footing". It concludes: "Failure to act decisively and with urgency would allow commentary around the industry’s future to persist."

"The committee also remains concerned by a lack of progress in implementing recommendations that seek to protect wild salmon populations from the risks posed
by farmed salmon."

"The committee is particularly concerned that its key recommendations aimed at addressing farmed fish mortality through strengthened regulation and oversight of farms and improved transparency, have not been accepted by the Scottish Government."

The Scottish Parliament's rural affairs committee "is disappointed that across key areas of its inquiry
recommendations, progress in future-proofing the salmon farming industry has not occurred with the urgency called for one year ago."

MSPs have today lambasted the Scottish Government for failing to make enough progress towards making #salmon farming sustainable.

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Briefing here on the forthcoming petition: qrcodelink.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/a...
I've thought about this for a while. Did you know the Reform UK Party is a registered company, apparently complying with the UK Companies Act, despite having policy to scrap Net Zero? The Act needs urgent amendment.

A resident in Montrose told The Ferret the dunes he played on as a child are gone and the coast is being carved away by the sea. We looked at how climate change is affecting Scotland’s east coast 
www.theferret.scot/scotlands-disappearing-golf-courses/

🔴NEW: More than 100 golf courses in Scotland are at risk from coastal erosion. We visited Montrose, where locals say the sea has advanced dramatically in recent decades.

Find out more: www.theferret.scot/scotlands-disappearing-golf-courses/

Two men shake hands; Reform UK rosette; text: party reselected people with far-right ties, COVID myths and ableist slurs.

🔴NEW: The Ferret exposed the extreme views of Reform UK’s Scotland’s candidates before Nigel Farage promised to improve his party’s “poor” vetting processes, but many of them have been re-selected to fight the Holyrood election.

Read our latest: www.theferret.scot/reform-uk-kn...

Government spent over £1m on court cases to keep information secret Whitehall departments spent seven-figure sum on legal fees to fight Freedom of Information requests

In yesterday's FT anonymous government officials talked of need to 'tighten' to FOI to stop China (!?!)

The real story, though, is how much govt spending on legal fees to fight FOI requesters in court

Campaigners, citizens, journalists all paying price
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🔴 NEW: Anas Sarwar's party accepted £7,200 from Stonehaven, a lobbying firm which represents the owner of Scotland's last nuclear power station. Scottish Labour has sought to make nuclear power a battleground in the May election
www.theferret.scot/scottish-labour-astrotur...

Black-and-white image of Torness nuclear power station with headline: “Revealed: This ‘grassroots’ group is campaigning to bring back nuclear. Its directors are industry lobbyists.” Subtext notes Britain Remade appointed two directors from a lobbying firm representing EDF.

“Being able to leverage wealth and privilege risks not just promoting private interests, but also damaging trust in our democratic systems” 
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This pro-nuclear group claims to be 'grassroots'. So why are its directors industry lobbyists? Britain Remade has appointed two directors from a lobbying firm which represents EDF, the owner of Scotland’s last nuclear power station.

🔴NEW: A group leading the push to overturn Scotland’s opposition to new nuclear power says it is “independent” and “grassroots”. But we found links between campaign and a lobbying firm representing EDF, which owns Torness nuclear station

www.theferret.scot/britain-rema...

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Entry Shortlists - Amnesty Media Awards Entry Shortlists - Amnesty Media Awards

We're delighted to share that The Ferret has been shortlisted for an Amnesty Media Award for our reporting on the far right in Scotland by co-editor Billy Briggs and journalist director Jamie Mann.

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Claim Scottish Labour built six houses in government is False Online claims questioned Scottish Labour's house building in government between 1999 and 2007.

🔴 Posts online claimed Scottish Labour only build six houses between 1999 and 2007. This is false. 

🔴EXCLUSIVE: The vape shop at the centre of the fire on Glasgow's Union Street had not paid business rates and does not appear on a legal register to sell tobacco or vaping products, The Ferret has found.

Read the full story 👉 www.theferret.scot/revealed-com...

Salmon fillets in supermarket trays with headline about 'sickening' videos of damaged salmon at Highland Farm.

Campaigners complained to a government animal welfare watchdog, with videos of badly injured salmon at a fish farm. This prompted a review, but should more have been done?

Our latest: www.theferret.scot/videos-damaged-salmon-ba...

Revealed: company behind vape shop fire had not paid business rates...or registered to sell vapes A Ferret investigation has found there was no registration to sell vapes at the Union Street premises in Glasgow where a major fire started - and we can reveal the name of the company behind the shop.

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🔴EXCLUSIVE: The vape shop at the centre of the fire on Glasgow's Union Street had not paid business rates and does not appear on a legal register to sell tobacco or vaping products, The Ferret has found.

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Salmon fillets in supermarket trays with headline about 'sickening' videos of damaged salmon at Highland Farm.

🔴NEW: Videos revealing salmon at a highland fish farm with severely damaged faces, heads and bodies prompted an investigation by the UK government's animal welfare watchdog, The Ferret can reveal.

Our latest: www.theferret.scot/videos-damaged-salmon-ba...

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More than half a million tonnes of sewage sludge spread on Scotland's fields Huge volumes of sewage sludge have been used to fertilise Scottish farmland. Studies show it contains microplastics, forever chemicals and cancer-linked pollutants.

Some countries, including the Netherlands and Switzerland, have banned sewage sludge spreading on farmland because of contamination risks. In Scotland, it remains common practice