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 ...

Investigative journalism for Scotland.

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

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

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

Members of an opaquely-funded organisation advised by a fundraiser for Donald Trump attended anti-asylum protests in Scotland, The Ferret can reveal, prompting fears so-called “dark” money could ...

Laura Brown is one of many adult adoptees all too used to NHS consultations that start with questions about family health history. A law accountant living in Stirling, she was adopted in 1991 and didn ...

Toxic chemicals used to kill fleas on hundreds of thousands of pets have contaminated more than 50 rivers across Scotland at levels that could harm wildlife, according to the Scottish Government’s ...

More than three quarters of Scottish salmon farms certified as “sustainable” broke the environmental rules of the certifying body last year without losing their accreditation, The Ferret can reveal.

A developer has been lobbying the Scottish Government to publicly endorse its definition of a ‘green’ data centre, according to documents obtained by The Ferret. The Scottish Government has backed the ...

The flag of banned loyalist terrorist groups and a neo-Nazi banner were displayed at a protest in Edinburgh organised by a far right group called the Scottish Defence League. The anti-immigration ...

A trout abattoir has been accused of animal welfare abuses for the second time in less than a year following covert filming at the Highland site. The Ferret published footage last October of farmed ...