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Two farming partnerships have been issued civil penalties totalling £10,400 by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) following pollution of watercourses in Perthshire and Stirling.

Parts of eastern Scotland have seen improvement in water resources over winter following the 2025 drought, but some areas could still face water scarcity later this year if spring rainfall is lower than normal.

Work has completed on the removal of a redundant weir restoring access for migratory fish to at least 1.6km of upstream river in the Borders.

The Rosyth River Restoration project has secured funding for its next three phases, offering ‘huge potential’ for local ecology and community benefits.

A North Lanarkshire company has been fined £48,000 after untreated industrial effluent from its Moodiesburn factory – which makes collagen casings used in sausage production – was discharged into a local burn, significantly harming the environment.

SEPA are investigating a pollution incident that resulted in dead fish on the Burn of Carron, near Aberlour.