Scotland’s leading independent schools were worth £12.3m more in 2021 than they were the previous year, despite the ...

Thousands of species rely on Scotland’s indigenous trees to survive. In our public woodlands, they’re vastly outnumbered by ...

Artificial intelligence has fuelled a “significant” surge in objections to some of Scotland’s biggest planning applications and prompted the Scottish Government to stop accepting public responses by ...

Lochs in Orkney, the Highlands and the Outer Hebrides are among waters containing high levels of toxic pollutants with health risks known as ‘forever chemicals’, The Ferret can reveal. More than a ...

A string of central Glasgow properties are owned by a company belonging to the head of an investment firm behind a Russian shipping hub. Researchers say the port sustains Moscow’s illegal invasion of ...

A loyalist killer from Northern Ireland and a former member of the banned terror group the Ulster Volunteer Force attended an anti-immigration demonstration in ...

As the Russian attack on Ukraine continues, Ali and Sam spoke to Eoghan MacGuire on this week’s podcast. Eoghan ...

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The director of a small Edinburgh children’s charity has hit out at its larger rival Barnardo’s, accusing them ...

A senior figure at NatureScot expressed concern there was no “coherent strategy” at the Scottish Government’s wildlife agency on ...

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Rare birds in a conservation area on the Firth of Tay have been “devastated” by a huge wildfire during a ...