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Billy Briggs
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Journalist | Founding Director & Co-Editor @ theferret.scot | www.billybriggs.co.uk | 📷 = Angela Catlin |
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Last week we reported that Edinburgh University students were “interrogated” by police over posters featuring Palestinians killed by the Israeli military.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Nearly 300 protected areas are being damaged or put at risk by Scotland’s rampant deer population, including breeding grounds for capercaillie – a bird facing extinction, The Ferret can reveal. theferret.scot/nearl...
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🔴 Students working in Edinburgh University were “interrogated” by police at their desks over posters featuring Palestinians killed by the Israeli military, prompting dozens to sign a letter of complaint.

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November 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Campaigners warned of a “Scottish sewage scandal” and said the findings suggest the public is “being put at risk” even at “supposedly excellent quality beaches”
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A yellow warning sign on a beach reads “KEEP OUT – SEWAGE CONTAMINATED WATER. EXPOSURE MAY CAUSE ILLNESS.” Waves crash near a pier in the background. Overlaid text says: “These Scottish beaches were officially rated ‘excellent’. But they were polluted with human and animal waste.”
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🔴 NEW: High levels of faecal bacteria were recorded at dozens of Scotland’s best beaches this summer. Campaigners say swimmers and paddlers could be at risk, but ministers and regulators insist water quality remains high.

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November 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🔴 NEW: Footage of farmed trout apparently suffocating, haemorrhaging, and being beaten with batons in a slaughterhouse has prompted an official complaint to a government regulator.

Our latest: theferret.scot/foota...
Two brown trout swim underwater near the riverbed, surrounded by green plants. The image is overlaid with text reading: “Footage of trout being clubbed and slaughtered prompts complaint to regulator.”
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Our findings have prompted a call for firms in receipt of taxpayers’ money with offshore links to be more “transparent” about their funding and manufacturers of potentially high risk operations in space to be “held to the highest standards”
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An aerial view of a rocket launch site surrounded by forest, showing a small rocket with orange and grey markings standing upright beside several white and grey containers, vehicles, and equipment on a dirt track. Text overlay reads: “Ukrainian owner of Scots space rocket firm linked to online gambling in Russia and ‘I am naughty’ dating site.”
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🔴 NEW: The Ukrainian owner of Scotland’s first rocket firm with a space launch licence — backed by millions in public funds — has historic links to offshore dating and gambling businesses, including one called I Am Naughty, The Ferret can reveal.

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An aerial view of a rocket launch site surrounded by forest, showing a small rocket with orange and grey markings standing upright beside several white and grey containers, vehicles, and equipment on a dirt track. Text overlay reads: “Ukrainian owner of Scots space rocket firm linked to online gambling in Russia and ‘I am naughty’ dating site.”
October 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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The Ferret has been covering the Sheku Bayoh Inquiry for over three years. Now the Bayoh family's lawyer warns the legal establishment has delivered “a wrecking ball” to the inquiry from which it may never recover.
October 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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🎉 The Ferret is 10! Join us 13 Nov at Drygate, Glasgow for live music, dancing & our brand refresh.

Ray Aggs (Sacred Paws), ceilidh, DJ GAMING, Tam Dean Burn hosting. 7:30pm | £15 (£10 members)

Pay-what-you-can tickets available.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ferret...
October 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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📢 We've been nominated for a British Journalism Award for our environmental reporting.

Well done to @billybriggs24.bsky.social, @paul.theferret.scot
and @robedwards5.bsky.social 🎉

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British Journalism Awards 2025: Finalists revealed
Press Gazette is proud to reveal the shortlist for the British Journalism Awards 2025, with links to all of the winning work.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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🔴 NEW: A company that sold a major Highland port for an undisclosed sum to a Japanese firm received over £30m of taxpayers’ money – including £10m just a few months ahead of the sale.

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October 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🔴 NEW: Climate pollution from the burning of rubbish in Scotland has almost doubled in five years, according to new data, with some incinerators releasing higher amounts of toxic chemicals than ever before in 2024.

Our latest investigation: bit.ly/4o0zDZH
Two industrial chimneys emit thick white smoke against a cloudy sky. Text on the image reads: “Scotland’s waste burners pump out record pollution.”
October 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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🔴 NEW: Community groups claim they have been “shut out” of the Scottish Government’s flagship just transition fund due to “corporate capture” with the vast majority of money from the £500m pot going to the private sector.

Read more: theferret.scot/anger...
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🔴 NEW: Lochs in Orkney, the Highlands and the Outer Hebrides are among waters containing high levels of toxic pollutants with health risks known as ‘forever chemicals’.

Our latest investigation: theferret.scot/orkne...
October 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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I started working on this research in my spare time with a small group of fellow journos/artists — Nicole Vögele, @jakecharlesrees.bsky.social , & Robin Kötzle — after noticing recurring patterns in IDF 3D videos last year

The Ferret (via @billybriggs24.bsky.social): theferret.scot/idf-scottish...
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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A months-long investigation by The Ferret and a group of international journalists found there have been 40 propaganda animations produced by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the past two years – including several using the Scottish Maritime Museum’s 3D scans
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A digital 3D model, displayed against a plain black background. White text above reads: “The Israel Defense Forces used a Scottish museum’s 3D models in propaganda videos.” The image is branded with The Ferret’s logo in the corner.
October 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🔴 NEW: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used 3D scans from the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine in propaganda videos for its operations in Gaza, Iran and Syria.

Our latest: theferret.scot/idf-s...
Image description: A digital 3D model, displayed against a plain black background. White text above reads: “The Israel Defense Forces used a Scottish museum’s 3D models in propaganda videos.” The image is branded with The Ferret’s logo in the corner.
October 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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🔴NEW: At least 20 racist incidents took place in Scotland last month including attacks on mosques and asylum hotels, alleged assaults – and the jailing of a neo-Nazi for slashing a student in the face with a knife.

Find out more: bit.ly/477AYHY
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🔴 On the day the Tories pledge to repeal the climate change act, we reveal one of their senior politicians in Scotland has been “cosying up” to the UK’s “main climate denial group”.

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October 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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In Brechin, Storm Babet brought the worst flooding residents could remember. Nearly two years on, many are still struggling to recover.

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September 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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An SNP MP claimed English drug deaths had been 'written out of the figures'. This is not accurate.

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September 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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🔴 NEW: Disgruntled islanders have criticised Scotland’s first spaceport in the far north of Shetland for a “culture of secrecy and bad stewardship”, according to a new report.

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A view over grassy cliffs and coastline in Shetland with a large industrial building near the sea. Text overlay reads: "Shetland spaceport under fire from local community".
September 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🔴 NEW: Scottish companies are roping NHS and council workers into veiled tax avoidance schemes that could see them hit with big unexpected tax bills.

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A collage illustration of a woman in business attire sitting on a red sofa with a tablet. Behind her are stacks of large gold coins, all beneath the outline of a house roof.
September 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM