Passengers on a boat trip to an uninhabited island couldn't believe their eyes when a crowd of thousands turned out to greet them. For grey seals lined the shores of Mingulay, as far as the eye could ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On the southern tip of the Outer Hebrides, with its colonies of seabirds and overhanging cliffs, nestles the ...

THE fourth part in our ‘Islands of the Week’ series is a little unusual, in that it features the island of Mingulay, which has been uninhabited for the past century. Did you know with a Digital ...

This acapella group from County Mayo performed a haunting version of a Scottish sea shanty in a Mayo pub, in 2016. The Coda singing group, which consists of seven local singers, performed the ...

Louisa has been brought to Clydebank to be examined by investigators Investigators are due to begin examining the wreckage of a crab boat which sank off the Western Isles last month with the loss of ...

INVESTIGATORS probing the sinking of a fishing boat off the Western Isles with the loss of crew members have issued images of the stricken vessel being lifted from the seabed. The Louisa sank while at ...

Mingulay has been in the care of the National Trust for Scotland since 2000 The abandonment of a small island 100 years ago will be marked in a series of events this weekend. Mingulay, 12 miles (19km) ...

A man who survived the sinking of a fishing boat off the Western Isles has spoken about the crew's efforts to save themselves. Lachlann Armstrong said the liferaft on the crab boat Louisa failed to ...

THE SEARCH for the final victim of a trawler sinking off the Western Isles was continuing on Monday as tributes to the men killed in the incident were paid. The MV Louisa sank off the island of ...