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A Norwegian company has drawn up plans for Britain’s first deep-sea salmon farm in waters off Shetland, prompting concerns it is an “experiment in factory farming” that could damage the environment.
Scottish universities have accepted millions of pounds from Chinese organisations with alleged links to the military, human rights abuses and spying.
The future of Holyrood was called into question this week, after claims that more than a third of Scots wanted to abolish the devolved parliament.
It took John Swinney two and a half months to secure a key meeting with Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the future for workers at Grangemouth.
A Norwegian firm has plans for Britain’s first deep-sea salmon farm, off Shetland, prompting concerns it could damage the environment.
Glasgow City Council have been accused of “moral” and “bureaucratic” failure over delays to a memorial for victims of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The UK statistics regulator questioned first minister John Swinney after The Ferret fact-checked a claim he made on Scottish education.
A new bill to widen freedom of information law in Scotland and cover private firms providing public services has been introduced to the Scottish Parliament.