Students working in Edinburgh University were “interrogated” by police at their desks over posters featuring Palestinians ...

Dozens of wild swimming spots where water quality is classed as “good” or “excellent” were contaminated with human or animal faeces this summer, analysis by The Ferret has found. Official testing ...

Footage of farmed trout apparently suffocating, haemorrhaging, and being beaten with batons in a slaughterhouse has prompted an official complaint to a government regulator. The video – seen by The ...

At least nine million fish have been killed by diseases, botched treatments, poor handling and other problems at salmon farms around Scotland since 2016. This content is for Standard Monthly , ...

Supermarkets are selling farmed salmon from companies accused of poor animal welfare, The Ferret can reveal. This content is for Standard Monthly , Standard Annual, Gold Annual, and Lifetime members ...

Calls for a privacy probe after Scottish Prison Service is first UK agency to admit using controversial phone blocking technology. This content is for Standard Monthly , Standard Annual, and Gold ...

Ferret Fact Service looks at the festive claim that Santa Claus is dressed in red because of Coca-Cola advertising. This content is for Standard Monthly , Standard Annual, Gold Annual, and Lifetime ...

Protests and riots were sparked by the fatal stabbings of three young girls in Southport, after false speculation spread online that the perpetrator was a Muslim asylum seeker who had come to the UK ...

The UK government secretly planned to dump the radioactive hulks of 22 nuclear submarines in the sea off north west Scotland, documents released by the National Archives reveal. This content is for ...

The UK government has lost over £250 billion in 13 years by giving generous tax breaks to North Sea oil companies, according to an expert report. Increasingly lax tax regimes by successive Westminster ...