Baker Hughes – which has received £4.9 million of taxpayers’ money in grants from Scottish Enterprise – is one of the world’s largest oil field services firms
The UK Government has refused to reveal how much of taxpayers’ money has been given to a fertiliser firm whose US parent corporation is worth around £9bn.
Scots farmers are facing cost rises of up to 200 per cent and warning a tsunami of escalating prices could mean further price rises in shops – and even food shortages leading to “civil unrest”.
John Young shows me a photo of himself in the summer of 1977. In the picture he’s standing on a bridge wearing a blue vest and flared jeans, holding his two year old son John in his arms.
A university project given more than £270,000 of taxpayers’ money to research chronic pain has been criticised amid claims the Scottish Government is failing hundreds of desperately ill patients.
MEXICAN fruit workers have asked Scots consumers to boycott berries sold in the Lidl supermarket chain amid allegations of slave labour, unsafe working conditions and harassment.
Repression in the Persian Gulf is being fuelled by the UK Government and private arms and security firms in Scotland who work secretly with regimes accused of human rights abuses, according to a new report.
