A primary school with less than 10 students on one of Scotland’s most remote islands is seeking an “enthusiastic” head teacher. The full-time position will require the successful applicant to relocate ...

LOCALS living on Britain’s most remote island have told how they don’t even have a pub – but could never be lonely. Sheila Gear, 82, originally from Oxford, has lived in Foula for 61 years – now she ...

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The residents of Foula, just over 30 strong, are big on tradition. Norse tradition. That includes the use of the ancient Julian calendar — meaning Christmas comes 12 days after the rest of Britain.

Twenty miles from its nearest neighbour and sometimes referred to as "The Edge of the World", the island of Foula is home to huge colonies of seabirds, hundreds of Shetland ponies and about 30 people, ...

A British island where its inhabitants were one of the last in the world to speak Nordic won't celebrate Christmas for another two weeks. Foula in Shetland is one of the UK's remotest permanently ...

Just 30 permanent residents live on Foula, which lays claim to being Britain's most remote inhabited island and operates on a different calendar to the rest of the UK. I learned several new words ...

This is a rare view, however. More often than not, the island is shrouded behind a curtain of mist, its outline only coming into focus as one carefully threads through the treacherous Shaalds o’ Foula ...

Just 30 permanent residents live on Foula, which lays claim to being Britain's most remote inhabited island and operates on a different calendar to the rest of the UK. I learned several new words ...