As I clambered over a step-stile, Papa Westray’s maritime heath opened up ahead, colonies of Scottish primrose creating a parti-coloured island view, gently sagging on three sides to the coast.
In the Highlands and islands, UK-wide dissatisfaction has been compounded by a sense that the north is getting an especially raw deal, writes Jim Hunter.
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Russian research ship Akademik Boris Petrov travelled through the Shetland-Orkney Gap on the afternoon of 21 October, a day after Shetland s undersea cables were cut.