SR's remarkable growth as an independent magazine is based largely on word of mouth. Here are examples of our journalism:

* SR played a leading role in the successful campaign to save St Margaret of Scotland Hospice

* An SR investigation into Scotland's care homes revealed the truth about Southern Cross a full year before the company collapsed. We put the facts in the public domain. They were ignored until it was too late

* SR campaigned for greater transparency in Scottish public life and won a landmark judgement from the Scottish information commissioner which has led to a transformation in the information available about executive salaries and pensions in public bodies

*  Having discovered elderly people still living in a near-derelict block of flats in Glasgow, sometimes without a water supply, SR campaigned to have them decently re-housed. With the help of Scotland's housing minister, Alex Neil, we succeeded

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Ponies on Islay
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