Wildlife experts hope to "completely eradicate" a species of invasive mink from the Outer Hebrides after receiving new funding to trap the remaining animals. More than 2,000 American mink have been ...

I am no stranger to long walks – I have done quite a few, including Jordan north to south and crossing Morocco and the Sahara. However, I am a relatively new convert to doing it alone, self-guided and ...

In 1829 Felix Mendelssohn visited the Hebrides, a group of islands off the coast of Scotland. This trip inspired him to write his famous “Hebrides Overture”. Now, two Cambridge academics have adapted ...

On an empty road behind the sweep of Scarista Beach, where ocean winds were flattening the dune grasses, stood a lone white house. It could have been a drawing from a storybook: steep-roofed, a little ...

OUTER HEBRIDES, SCOTLAND — The word “remote” is greeted with an eye roll by the tight-knit communities of the Outer Hebrides, a collection of spectacular islands off Scotland’s far northwestern coast ...

The Hebrides, the islands off the northwest coast of Scotland facing the Atlantic at the edge of Europe, have always attracted visitors. From Christian pilgrims in the 6th century and Norse settlers a ...