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

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 ...

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

The boss of a Chinese renewables firm, backed by the SNP to build a controversial factory in Scotland, was named in a bribery scandal, The Ferret has found. Ming Yang Smart Energy announced plans last ...

As we drive into east Belfast, union flags on lampposts flap in the wind and murals with startling imagery honour banned paramilitary groups like the Ulster Defence Association and Ulster Freedom ...

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 ...