The best way to get around the Scottish Highlands is by car. Many of the region's top attractions and desirable destinations are spread far apart from one another and could take a long time to reach ...

Travel disruption is likely as Storm Bram moves in, bringing with it gale-force winds and heavy rain. An Amber weather ...

The Ness of Brodgar lies on a narrow strip of land between two Orkney lochs Archaeologists are to resume digging at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney after 3D radar technology led to an "extraordinary ...

Archaeologists are to resume digging at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney after 3D radar technology led to an "extraordinary discovery". The dig team at the Ness, one of the most important Neolithic sites ...

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The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...

1pm An hour after our flight lands in Edinburgh, we plonk down on the velvet sofas in Penicuik House. Built in the 1770s as a stable block for Old Penicuik House, the 16-bedroom bolthole sleeps up to ...