Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.

Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.

In the former home of the SS commandant who ran Auschwitz, Jacek Purski is talking about neo-Nazis and reclaiming a number that represents “Heil Hitler” and white supremacy. He’s referring to the ...

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

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Scotland’s NHS boards have recorded more than 5,000 data breaches over the last four years, The Ferret can reveal. Incidents included staff sharing confidential patient information, a cancer patient's ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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We continued our far right investigations throughout 2023, an area The Ferret has covered extensively for some years now. The ...

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