2024年11月10日 · How are loved ones impacted by drug use? Research has found that on average for every person who has issues of substance abuse, 11 friends and family are impacted.. In 2021-22, drug use was recorded in 766 (1.7 per cent) pregnancies in Scotland, while 35 per cent of people who died due to drug use were the parents of children aged under 16. More than 500 children lost a parent or parental ...

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2025年1月20日 · For the past year now, The Ferret has been investigating the health of Scotland’s seas.. The Scotland’s Seas in Danger project – funded by Journalismfund Europe – is a collaboration with Fada Collective and the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI).. Our aim has been to highlight problems and solutions to pressing issues impacting our oceans and seas, which produce more than ...

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2024年4月1日 · Alastair Majury is a former Tory Stirling councillor who, in 2015, reportedly used a social media account to deride benefit claimants, make derogatory remarks about Catholics and said the term Nazi is “an accurate description” of Scottish nationalists.. He was listed as a Scottish candidate in the caption of a photo taken at Reform’s Spring conference in February.

2024年12月15日 · Impact on other animals. There have been concerns that the sea lice which afflict farmed salmon could risk spreading to wild fish. The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa), named 19 fish farms that were at high risk of contaminating wild salmon and trout. Wild Atlantic salmon were internationally classified as endangered in 2023, after global populations fell by 23 per cent between ...

2024年4月28日 · Sources: UK parliamentary answers in 2024, 2023 and 2022. One incident at Faslane in 2023 was rated as “category A”, the highest risk rating used by the MoD. It has defined such incidents as having an “actual or high potential for radioactive release to the environment” in breach of safety limits.. The last category A incident reported by the MoD was in 2008 when radioactive waste ...

2024年3月3日 · Under new regulations introduced in 2022, Scottish Water has to take emergency measures to prevent the supply of water to consumers if it contains more than 100 nanograms of PFAS per litre of water.. None of the samples in 2023 came close to exceeding this threshold. But other countries, including the US and Denmark, have much stricter limits and the Royal Society of Chemistry recently called ...

2024年6月16日 · Scottish universities can charge students from the rest of the UK tuition fees of up to £9,250 per year. International students can be charged at much higher rates. Tuition fees from non-EU students, in particular, have become an increasingly vital part of the funding landscape. A Ferret analysis of each Scottish university’s most recent annual accounts shows that together, Scots unis ...

2024年2月12日 · A few different types of MPAs exist, including nature conservation MPAs, special areas of conservation, special protection areas, sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs), and Ramsar sites, which cover wetlands of “international importance”.. Nature conservation MPAs cover “nationally important habitats and species” which are essential for the marine ecosystem to survive and thrive.