You have to be tough to survive in Orkney, writes Peter Calder.

Prime Minister John Key and his wife, Bronagh, will be spending a weekend with the Queen at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

Susan Boyle has spoken of her honour at being chosen to sing for Pope Benedict XVI when he visits Glasgow in September.

A row has arisen over the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

The epic voyage of two Wellingtonians determined to play a round of golf somewhere different every day for a year.

The American mother of three children who were found dead in an Edinburgh house faces criminal charges, police said.

Will we get past halftime tomorrow before referee Jonathan Kaplan sends an All Black or Wallaby for a rest?

The Obama administration wants a review of the decision to release the Libyan convicted in the Lockerbie airliner bombing.

Having hurtled round in 63 the previous day, McIlroy on Friday saw his ambitions strewn across the Old Course in a sadistic revenge.

Limo rental companies and dressmakers are starting to cash in as 'proms' to celebrate the end of primary school take off across Britain.

Gaelic is still widely spoken on the island of Lewis, the northernmost, largest and lowest-lying of the Outer Hebrides.

Launched at the Taste of Edinburgh festival yesterday, Acquamara claims to be the world's first designer sea water.

Top 10-ranked rugby nations Scotland and Fiji will not make another tour of NZ until at least the next decade.

The ash cloud from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano is still causing havoc for flights across the Atlantic.

Graham Reid finds solitude, beauty and a warm welcome - unless you're a Campbell - at one of Scotland's most infamous sites.