Jamie Mann

Dogged digging by @jamiermann - on the money trail.

📢We've been nominated for a British Press Award for our environmental reporting. 🎉 Well done to @billybriggs , Paul Dobson and @robedwards53. pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazette-…

🔴 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. Our latest: bit.ly/4gG0d7C

🔴 NEW: Grangemouth should have been Scotland’s big opportunity to realise its ambition for a just transition – moving workers into cleaner, greener jobs. But embittered power struggles got in the way. Find out more: bit.ly/47ZYpE0

🔴 NEW: Anti-migrant protests are becoming more common in Scotland. We investigated the groups attending, the messages being shared, and what’s at stake. Here's what we found: bit.ly/3USg20L

🇬🇧 The Truth About Protests Fuelled By Fascism ▫The Ferret on involvement of extremist far-right groups and calls for Government response ▫@billybriggs @jamiermann #frontpagestoday #UK @ScotNational 🇬🇧

We examined more than 2,600 Scottish Enterprise payments over £25k made between 2020 and 2024. Eighteen companies — all tax haven-owned — each received £1m or more bit.ly/4fD6DE0

A pipe burst inside a nuclear weapons facility in 2019 flooded a Trident processing area. Contaminated water drained into Loch Long, a loch popular with swimmers and divers. Documents confirm radioactive tritium was found days later bit.ly/45wDs0N

It’s our 10th birthday 🎂 Ten years ago, a few of us sat round a kitchen table in Edinburgh, sharing carrot sticks, burnt pizza and a belief that Scotland needed fearless, independent investigative journalism. We called it The Ferret 🧵

Mega farms in Scotland, including some with more than a million animals, have repeatedly leaked excrement and failed to monitor contamination, putting humans, wildlife and the environment at risk, The Ferret can reveal. bit.ly/40pxFYV

They’re often seen as symbols of Scotland — but whisky, salmon and oil are largely owned overseas. We looked at who’s behind them, and who’s influencing decisions bit.ly/4isIUpC

🔴 NEW: Releasing pheasants into the countryside may boost the risk of humans catching Lyme disease, according to new research from universities and the UK Health Security Agency. Find out more: bit.ly/446oOOJ

🔴 NEW: Nearly a third of Scotland’s most-read national newspapers are owned in a US tax haven – and that proportion may soon rise to half. Find out more: bit.ly/4jKRb9C

From @FerretScot: Scottish Limited Partnerships are used by thousands of legitimate businesses – but some have been used by money launderers, tax evaders and fraudsters. Now, as part of The Ferret's finance project, SLPs are in sharp focus again. buff.ly/n7VbhEt

🔴 Who’s winning friends and influencing people at the Scotland Office? The Ferret's Who Runs Scotland series takes a look behind the scenes at the UK Government department. bit.ly/4i3N6Mg

So, Who Runs Scotland in 2025? We'll be answering that question in our new month-long series, starting this Sunday. bit.ly/42cAufZ

This week for our #WhoRunsScotland? series we're looking at political power and influence. We're also taking a look back at related pieces from the last year like this one: a quarter of Scots MPs own multiple homes. bit.ly/4i6h4Q6

A far right German politician who handed out weapons and met with neo-Nazis is set to speak at the Homeland Party’s UK conference focused on the mass deportation of migrants. bit.ly/4bmaIdo

Does Scottish abortion law ban silent prayer in your own home? We fact-checked this claim and found it to be False. Here’s why 👇 bit.ly/4b31ymb

🔴 NEW: The new chairman of the Scottish Conservatives led a company which admitted benefitting from “corrupt payments" made to a Russian firm. bit.ly/4134nQB