Dozens of complaints about reading material in school libraries have been received, with campaigners warning that "book bans" ...

A well known salmon farming company was told by Scottish Government inspectors to cut lice numbers at three of its sites in Sutherland. It responded by suggesting that other salmon farmers were ...

The Ferret visited Poland to visit House 88, the former home of Rudolf Höss, the SS officer who ran the Auschwitz-Birkenau ...

We visited the Polish city of Kraków ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day which is held to remember the millions murdered by the Nazis – including six million Jews. Kraków's Jewish population was decimated ...

When the “mob” appeared, some were waving union flags and saltires. There were dozens of protestors and their target was a group of anti-racists who’d gathered in a Dundee park in solidarity with ...

You might have noticed some changes around here recently. The Ferret is 10 and it’s celebrating the milestone with a refreshed look and renewed commitment to journalism that cuts through the spin. In ...

The Royal Navy threatened legal action as part of a fierce, high-level, behind-the-scenes battle to block publication of information about radioactive pollution at the Coulport nuclear bomb base on ...

The Ministry of Defence has apologised after it accidentally leaked secret documents to The Ferret revealing it was considering Grangemouth and other sites across the UK for new arms factories. Twelve ...

In an abandoned Paisley car park, weeds and saplings have forced their way through the weathered tarmac. Yet in another nearby parking bay, barely a space is free. Vehicles are jammed together on the ...

It’s a quaint museum in a coastal town whose aim is to educate Scotland about its rich maritime heritage. Housed within an A-listed Victorian building in Irvine, the Scottish Maritime Museum is a ...

Dr Fiona Work, a former nurse, remembers December 2012 vividly. “I had gone to my friends and had a call saying that my house had gone under,” she says. “I had lived there for 25 years and there had ...

On a fine summer morning in the Brig, the popular Bridgend bar in Brechin, Scott and Amanda McNeill recall the events of October 2023, when the river South Esk rose over 20 feet during Storm Babet.