The credibility of the salmon farming industry has come under attack after it admitted underestimating by 66 per cent the ...

Scottish authorities had to intervene to keep deer numbers down at a Sutherland estate after the overpopulated animals ...

A video showing a man playing bagpipes during a Muslim call to prayer was widely shared on social media this week, after ...

A campaigner has made the first estimate of the total number of cleaner fish that have died while grazing lice on farmed ...

A former Scotland leader of Nigel Farage’s previous party has been under scrutiny over pro-Russian statements since an explosive court case. The Ferret analysed what David Coburn said about Russia – ...

The Royal Navy threatened legal action as part of a fierce, high-level, behind-the-scenes battle to block publication of information about radioactive pollution at the Coulport nuclear bomb base on ...

The Ministry of Defence has apologised after it accidentally leaked secret documents to The Ferret revealing it was considering Grangemouth and other sites across the UK for new arms factories. Twelve ...

In an abandoned Paisley car park, weeds and saplings have forced their way through the weathered tarmac. Yet in another nearby parking bay, barely a space is free. Vehicles are jammed together on the ...

Dr Fiona Work, a former nurse, remembers December 2012 vividly. “I had gone to my friends and had a call saying that my house had gone under,” she says. “I had lived there for 25 years and there had ...

On a fine summer morning in the Brig, the popular Bridgend bar in Brechin, Scott and Amanda McNeill recall the events of October 2023, when the river South Esk rose over 20 feet during Storm Babet.

A website launched to help thousands of oil workers move into green jobs attracted just 200 users in Scotland in its first five months, despite millions of pounds of backing from the Scottish ...

Intense behind-the-scenes lobbying by the multinational whisky industry forced the Scottish Government’s green watchdog to back down on plans to toughen pollution controls, The Ferret can reveal. Over ...