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Hi ,

Here at the Ferret we often don't big ourselves up as much as we could, but this week is different.

At last night's Scottish Press Awards, we picked up the top prize for Journalism Team of the Year! This was for our series 'Who Runs Scotland', published with The Herald.

The series examined the ownership of major Scottish industries, looked at influential lobbyists and those who head Scotland's public bodies, and the businesses owned in tax havens.

It was a real team effort so we are very proud that it has been recognised, and The Ferret has another award to its name.


Yours with a slightly sore head,
Ali from The Ferret
Story of the week
An in-depth look at a Ferret investigation
MPs have accepted £828,211 in the form of all-expenses-paid trips funded by states in a Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen’s war since 2015, The Ferret can reveal.
What did we dig up this week?
A round up of our investigations in the last seven days
Scottish ‘legal aid crisis’ denies justice to gender-based violence survivors
Survivors of gender-based violence in Scotland are being forced to choose between paying their bills and accessing justice due to a legal aid crisis, experts warned.

Hereditary peer in row with tenants over water contamination
A member of the House of Lords is in dispute with his Galloway tenants after water supplies to their homes repeatedly failed Scottish Water quality standards.

Claim anti-Scots verse of God Save The King was sung at Queen’s funeral is False
The Queen’s funeral took place at Westminster Abbey on Monday, and led to much scrutiny on aspects of the service.

Beaver reintroduction programme to spread across Scotland under new plans
A plan intended to aid the spread of beavers across the whole of Scotland has been published, with more than a quarter of a million acres marked as potential habitat.

Claim King Charles won’t pay inheritance tax is True
As reigning monarch, he is in line to inherit assets and wealth worth an estimated £17bn.
The FFS Show
Our misinformation and fact-checking podcast

Our fact-checking podcast picked up a runner-up prize in the Best Podcast category at this year's Scottish Press Awards.

Thanks everyone for their support of the FFS Show!
Question of the Week
Should MPs be accepting free trips from countries
involved in the Yemen War?

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Best of the rest
Investigations we've enjoyed from around the world
How colleges use AI to monitor student protests
For a few thousand dollars a year, schools across the US could scan social media posts from students at risk of harming themselves or others. (Dallas News)

Why do Russian executives keep dying in strange ways?
A string of deaths among wealthy Russians have this in common: The circumstances are always unusual. (Grid)

For Donald Trump, information has always been power
People have wondered why Trump collected classified intel, but he has a long history of gathering and wielding sensitive info to help himself. (ProPublica)
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