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Inside Hartwood Hospital’s overgrown courtyard, a derelict nursing home is being strangled by a net of ivy that creeps up its crumbing facade and vanishes into the tattered roof. A cage of spiked ...

The Scottish Government has continued to back Ming Yang’s proposed investment at Ardersier despite national security concerns ...

Gypsy Travellers have been persecuted for centuries. But despite a Scottish Government apology last June for the Tinker ...

The university has continued to argue staff cuts are needed to make ends meet. But a growing cash balance has raised ...

This summer we revealed that convicted loyalists from Belfast travelled to Glasgow for a far right protest. Further digging has unearthed a rapidly expanding anti-immigration network between Scotland ...

A Scottish wind farm has been bought by a company whose founder and major shareholder is a right-wing US media mogul who has donated to Donald Trump. In March, an arm of Liberty Global bought the ...

An anti-fish farm activist dubbed the “kayak vigilante” has accused a Norwegian multinational of trying to “privatise public waters” at salmon farms in the Highlands and islands. Don Staniford, who ...

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Scotland's commissioner for children and young people has called on the government to take urgent action to end the use of unsuitable temporary accommodation for children. Following an investigation ...

The King, J.K. Rowling, billionaires and politicians are among those who have been given tens of millions of pounds ...

A consultancy firm which took part in a government pilot for fast-tracking salmon farm applications did an “independent” evaluation ...