Month: June 2020

The number of seals shot by the fish farming industry has doubled ahead of a proposed government ban, prompting fears of a “killing spree”. New official figures reveal that salmon ...

As many as 16,000 more people than officially admitted have been exposed to noise pollution from Edinburgh Airport, according to a research scientist who has resigned as an airport adviser. ...

A BLITZ of good news stories about the UK Government’s job furlough scheme emerged from Number 11 Downing Street on its final day for new applicants – among them, that ...

Westminster’s £2.5 billion backing for offshore oil and gas projects in Brazil and Ghana risks undermining UK efforts to cut climate pollution, according to an expert analysis. The financial think ...

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THERE IS A PHRASE in one of the recommendations in the report of the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery (published today) which kind of sums up their problem. It says: ...

113 is the magic number. That’s how many times Covid-19 was “introduced” to Scotland aboard flights in late February and the whole of March, according to a new University of ...

This weekend British nationalist fascists rioted in London in defence of statues that no one was attacking and against a Black Lives Matter protest that had already been cancelled. The ...

New polls on the Scottish elections in 2021 and on support for independence have raised the question of a referendum again. The polls show the SNP on course to win ...

Let’s start with the good news. One in every 200 tests are now coming back positive for Covid-19 in Scotland. From 32,021 tests in Scotland last week, 155 were positive, ...