The UK Government will soon force many company owners to prove their identities. We don’t know when the people behind ...

The founder of a Canadian "extremist, militia-like organisation” visited far right allies in Scotland. Critics question why a ...

Observations by campaigners suggest that three of the UK’s nuclear-armed submarines are currently at sea. This is the first ...

As staff at Scotland’s largest university continue strikes over sweeping cuts, their boss still won’t say what his second job ...

Scientists argue that research using animals is vital for the treatment and cure of human diseases like cancers. But ...

The Scottish Government is selling surveillance planes to save money and says drones are used to prevent illegal fishing. But ...

Ithaca Energy announced a major dividend on the eve of UK sanctions against companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements. A few weeks later it paid out £100m to a shareholder the UN says has ...

Two new board members at the UK’s oil regulator have tens of thousands of pounds invested in Shell and BP. The holdings are disclosed in the latest annual report of the North Sea Transition Authority ...

A new scheme to penalise salmon farmers when farmed fish escape is wholly controlled by the industry, The Ferret can reveal, prompting claims it is “a major step backwards for wild salmon conservation ...

The company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal – and one of the largest in the world – is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via a Caribbean tax haven, The Ferret can ...

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 ...

An audit firm has been asked to examine whether the apparently cash-strapped University of Dundee has too much money to receive another £27m in bailouts from taxpayers, The Ferret has learned. The ...