The Ferret
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Scotland's award-winning investigative news and fact-checking co-op.
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“You're like, ‘oh my god, this is the first time in my life I've ever been arrested’”
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Gaza protestors across Scotland are waiting to know if they'll be prosecuted as terrorists – a photo essay
Photographer Rayna Carruthers has been documenting pro-Palestine protests in Scotland for two years, particularly in recent months, following the proscription of Palestine Action by the UK Government.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“You're like, ‘oh my god, this is the first time in my life I've ever been arrested’”
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@theferret.scot is ten whole years old. It has a new look, a new website, and has switched from Wordpress to Ghost.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
@theferret.scot is ten whole years old. It has a new look, a new website, and has switched from Wordpress to Ghost.
www.theferret.scot
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Our journalism changes things.
For 10 years, we've held power to account in Scotland. Today: our fresh new look.
Same mission. Still digging.
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For 10 years, we've held power to account in Scotland. Today: our fresh new look.
Same mission. Still digging.
Explore: theferret.scot
Join us tonight at Drygate Glasgow, 7:30pm 🎉
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Our journalism changes things.
For 10 years, we've held power to account in Scotland. Today: our fresh new look.
Same mission. Still digging.
Explore: theferret.scot
Join us tonight at Drygate Glasgow, 7:30pm 🎉
For 10 years, we've held power to account in Scotland. Today: our fresh new look.
Same mission. Still digging.
Explore: theferret.scot
Join us tonight at Drygate Glasgow, 7:30pm 🎉
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The Ferret's 10th birthday party! 🎉
Thursday 13 Nov, Drygate Glasgow.
Ray Aggs (Sacred Paws), ceilidh, DJ set, cake, raffle.
Celebrating a decade of journalism that changes things + launching our new look.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ferret...
Thursday 13 Nov, Drygate Glasgow.
Ray Aggs (Sacred Paws), ceilidh, DJ set, cake, raffle.
Celebrating a decade of journalism that changes things + launching our new look.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ferret...
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The Ferret's 10th birthday party! 🎉
Thursday 13 Nov, Drygate Glasgow.
Ray Aggs (Sacred Paws), ceilidh, DJ set, cake, raffle.
Celebrating a decade of journalism that changes things + launching our new look.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ferret...
Thursday 13 Nov, Drygate Glasgow.
Ray Aggs (Sacred Paws), ceilidh, DJ set, cake, raffle.
Celebrating a decade of journalism that changes things + launching our new look.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ferret...
The Ferret's 10th birthday party! 🎉
Thursday 13 Nov, Drygate Glasgow.
Ray Aggs (Sacred Paws), ceilidh, DJ set, cake, raffle.
Celebrating a decade of journalism that changes things + launching our new look.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ferret...
Thursday 13 Nov, Drygate Glasgow.
Ray Aggs (Sacred Paws), ceilidh, DJ set, cake, raffle.
Celebrating a decade of journalism that changes things + launching our new look.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ferret...
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The Ferret's 10th birthday party! 🎉
Thursday 13 Nov, Drygate Glasgow.
Ray Aggs (Sacred Paws), ceilidh, DJ set, cake, raffle.
Celebrating a decade of journalism that changes things + launching our new look.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ferret...
Thursday 13 Nov, Drygate Glasgow.
Ray Aggs (Sacred Paws), ceilidh, DJ set, cake, raffle.
Celebrating a decade of journalism that changes things + launching our new look.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ferret...
Same mission. Fresh look. Landing 13.11.25
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Same mission. Fresh look. Landing 13.11.25
Green MSP Ariane Burgess said that if Scotland is “serious about reversing nature loss and tackling the climate emergency, we have to get deer densities down to levels that allow woodlands and peatlands to recover”
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November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Green MSP Ariane Burgess said that if Scotland is “serious about reversing nature loss and tackling the climate emergency, we have to get deer densities down to levels that allow woodlands and peatlands to recover”
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Last week we reported that Edinburgh University students were “interrogated” by police over posters featuring Palestinians killed by the Israeli military.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Last week we reported that Edinburgh University students were “interrogated” by police over posters featuring Palestinians killed by the Israeli military.
Politicians, academics and conservationists agree that Scotland’s deer herd must be managed, but there are splits on what the process should look like
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Politicians, academics and conservationists agree that Scotland’s deer herd must be managed, but there are splits on what the process should look like
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The iconic but vastly overpopulated animals are harming famous locations, including Ben Nevis, Glen Coe, the Cairngorms and Loch Lomond and the Trossachs national parks, and the critically rare Caledonian forest
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November 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The iconic but vastly overpopulated animals are harming famous locations, including Ben Nevis, Glen Coe, the Cairngorms and Loch Lomond and the Trossachs national parks, and the critically rare Caledonian forest
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Nearly 300 protected areas are being damaged or put at risk by Scotland’s rampant deer population, including breeding grounds for capercaillie – a bird facing extinction, The Ferret can reveal. theferret.scot/nearl...
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Nearly 300 protected areas are being damaged or put at risk by Scotland’s rampant deer population, including breeding grounds for capercaillie – a bird facing extinction, The Ferret can reveal. theferret.scot/nearl...
🔴 Students working in Edinburgh University were “interrogated” by police at their desks over posters featuring Palestinians killed by the Israeli military, prompting dozens to sign a letter of complaint.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🔴 Students working in Edinburgh University were “interrogated” by police at their desks over posters featuring Palestinians killed by the Israeli military, prompting dozens to sign a letter of complaint.
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"Our waters are for all of us, and people should be able to swim, bathe and relax safely"
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November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"Our waters are for all of us, and people should be able to swim, bathe and relax safely"
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Campaigners warned of a “Scottish sewage scandal” and said the findings suggest the public is “being put at risk” even at “supposedly excellent quality beaches”
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November 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Campaigners warned of a “Scottish sewage scandal” and said the findings suggest the public is “being put at risk” even at “supposedly excellent quality beaches”
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"In the build up to the 2026 election we need to see all parties commit to full transparency about the scale of pollution in Scotland"
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November 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"In the build up to the 2026 election we need to see all parties commit to full transparency about the scale of pollution in Scotland"
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🔴 NEW: High levels of faecal bacteria were recorded at dozens of Scotland’s best beaches this summer. Campaigners say swimmers and paddlers could be at risk, but ministers and regulators insist water quality remains high.
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November 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🔴 NEW: High levels of faecal bacteria were recorded at dozens of Scotland’s best beaches this summer. Campaigners say swimmers and paddlers could be at risk, but ministers and regulators insist water quality remains high.
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UK environment minister Steve Reed claimed water pollution in Scotland was worse than in England. We fact checked this as Mostly False.
Now the UK Statistics Authority has stepped in. It said there was "the potential for people to be misled" by the minister's comments.
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Now the UK Statistics Authority has stepped in. It said there was "the potential for people to be misled" by the minister's comments.
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Letter from Professor Dame Carol Propper to Seamus Logan MP – statements on water quality
Dear Mr Logan,
Thank you for your email of 5 September to the Acting National Statistician regarding comments by the former Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, that drew comparisons between England and Scotland’s water industry regulation.
I respond on behalf of the UK
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October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
UK environment minister Steve Reed claimed water pollution in Scotland was worse than in England. We fact checked this as Mostly False.
Now the UK Statistics Authority has stepped in. It said there was "the potential for people to be misled" by the minister's comments.
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Now the UK Statistics Authority has stepped in. It said there was "the potential for people to be misled" by the minister's comments.
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"This process is guaranteed to produce suffering en masse"
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October 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"This process is guaranteed to produce suffering en masse"
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“These fish were violently handled, bludgeoned, thrown onto ice, and left to suffocate with devastating injuries in their final moments of life”
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October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“These fish were violently handled, bludgeoned, thrown onto ice, and left to suffocate with devastating injuries in their final moments of life”
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Abigail Penny, executive director of Animal Equality UK, said the footage – filmed over two days – shows fish exiting stunning machinery still conscious and “showing signs of pain” and trout being stunned and beaten, but not “adequately killed”
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October 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Abigail Penny, executive director of Animal Equality UK, said the footage – filmed over two days – shows fish exiting stunning machinery still conscious and “showing signs of pain” and trout being stunned and beaten, but not “adequately killed”
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🔴 NEW: Footage of farmed trout apparently suffocating, haemorrhaging, and being beaten with batons in a slaughterhouse has prompted an official complaint to a government regulator.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🔴 NEW: Footage of farmed trout apparently suffocating, haemorrhaging, and being beaten with batons in a slaughterhouse has prompted an official complaint to a government regulator.
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"Given the vital importance of satellites to our daily lives, from weather forecasting to communication and navigation, private operators and manufacturers must be held to the highest standards of probity, particularly where they receive taxpayer cash"
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October 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Given the vital importance of satellites to our daily lives, from weather forecasting to communication and navigation, private operators and manufacturers must be held to the highest standards of probity, particularly where they receive taxpayer cash"
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Our findings have prompted a call for firms in receipt of taxpayers’ money with offshore links to be more “transparent” about their funding and manufacturers of potentially high risk operations in space to be “held to the highest standards”
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October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Our findings have prompted a call for firms in receipt of taxpayers’ money with offshore links to be more “transparent” about their funding and manufacturers of potentially high risk operations in space to be “held to the highest standards”
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"We need absolute transparency, not labyrinthine offshore corporate structures"
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October 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
"We need absolute transparency, not labyrinthine offshore corporate structures"
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🔴 NEW: The Ukrainian owner of Scotland’s first rocket firm with a space launch licence — backed by millions in public funds — has historic links to offshore dating and gambling businesses, including one called I Am Naughty, The Ferret can reveal.
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October 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
🔴 NEW: The Ukrainian owner of Scotland’s first rocket firm with a space launch licence — backed by millions in public funds — has historic links to offshore dating and gambling businesses, including one called I Am Naughty, The Ferret can reveal.
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