Volunteers from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Shorewatch in Shetland ... Islands showed a higher rate, with 58% of vessels broadcasting. In the Forth and Tay, home to some of Scotland ...

The Shetland Islands are Scotland’s northernmost isles; the nearest city is Bergen in Norway, not Inverness. During ‘Simmer Dim’, the long twilight hours of midsummer, the sun barely sets on ...

Life expectancy at birth for women in the Shetland Islands is one of the best in Scotland, new figures show. It comes as the King's Fund, a health think tank, said the Government's goal of ...

Scotland's 100 Shetland Islands are only about 60 mi/100 km north of the Orkney Islands, but they're startlingly different: Orkney is characterized by rolling farmland, but Shetland is a barren a ...

The Shetland Islands, the UK's most northerly archipelago, were described as "some of the most beautiful of all the islands of Scotland", while Orkney received praise for its whisky distilleries and ...