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Hi ,
We told you last week about our relaunch party at Drygate in Glasgow. Tickets are on sale for just £15 including a free drink when you arrive so we can celebrate in style!
We're extremely excited about relaunching The Ferret very soon with a brand new website, fresh content and a more modern look.
What better way to mark the occasion than with a party. Featuring music from Ray Aggs (Sacred Paws), a ceilidh, raffle and some cake.
We want you to be there with us. Tickets available here.
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Yours,
Ali
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Story of the week
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An in-depth look at a Ferret investigation
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A senior Scottish Conservative controversially elevated to the House of Lords by Boris Johnson is under fire for agreeing to appear at an event organised by the UK’s “main climate denial group”.
Lord Malcolm Offord of Garvel – the Scottish Tory treasurer – will join a panel hosted by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) at the party’s annual conference in Manchester next week.
Offord – a financier from Greenock – was made a Lord by Boris Johnson in 2021 and immediately appointed as a junior minister in the Scotland Office.
His ennobling attracted criticism after it emerged he had donated nearly £150,000 to the Conservatives, with the SNP describing the move as “rampant cronyism”. He now serves as the party’s shadow minister for energy security and net zero in the Lords.
The GWPF, founded in 2009 by former Tory chancellor Nigel Lawson, has been described as the UK’s “main climate denial group” and has cast doubt on established climate science.
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What did we dig up this week?
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A round up of our investigations in the last seven days
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How communities are struggling to recover after flooding and coastal erosion
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flooding is the UK’s most frequent natural disaster, impacting lives, businesses and infrastructure for years after it happens.
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It takes a village: a new approach to living with flooding
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In Edzell, despite the collective trauma, the villagers decided to form a flood group just a month after flooding damaged the community.
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Navy told to remove radioactive waste from nuclear bomb base
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Sepa has told the Royal Naval Armaments Depot at Coulport on Loch Long twice in the last year to get rid of a backlog of “substantial quantities” of waste “as soon as possible”.
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Question of the week
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Is climate denial going mainstream?
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Best of the rest
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Investigations we've enjoyed from around the world
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Unmasked: Secret filming exposes hidden culture of misogyny and racism inside Met Police
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Serving Metropolitan Police officers called for immigrants to be shot, revelled in the use of force and were dismissive of rape claims. (BBC News)
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Thousands of rogue bosses have failed to pay tribunal awards
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The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases. (The Bureau)
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US federal workers are being told to blame Democrats for the government shutdow
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Workers at one agency were given partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies. (Wired)
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