We rank the 16 Best Places to Visit in Scotland. See which places our readers like the best, and vote for your favorites.

From The Store Oxford to the Old Bank Hotel, we take a closer look at the top five luxury hotels in Oxford to book this year.

At the same time, residents face inflation-busting rises to their council tax. In the Orkney Islands, households have been told their bills are going up by 15pc – costing those with a Band D ...

Sir Lindsay Hoyle has billed the taxpayer more than £275,000 for a string of foreign trips the past two years. The Commons Speaker has been accused of “swanning around like he’s the foreign ...

Next you’ll sail to Haugesend in Norway, which has a rich maritime history, Eidfjord for tumbling waterfalls, Bergen, which was the capital in medieval times, then Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands ...

A community in the west Highlands hopes to buy a local pub whose original structure pre-dates the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Over the years the Glenuig Inn has become known as a traditional "ceilidh ...

Their work helps reveal how melting icebergs impact ocean conditions and what that means for the future. Along the way, they also uncovered a clue to a long-standing mystery: the presence of ancient ...

With that in mind, we've compiled a list of the most affordable and convenient hotels, hostels and campsites ... visitors will even be able to see Orkney in the distance - only 6.75 miles ...

Emergency crews rushed to the scene at around 9.40am after the alarm was raised. Stephen's vehicle, a red Volkswagen Golf, was recovered from the water, but he was sadly pronounced dead at the ...

Elsewhere, the area of Scotland with the third-lowest crime level is the Orkney Islands. The crime rate on the archipelago was reported as 224 per 10,000 people, down from 235 in 2023. Looking at ...

A recreation of the face of a woman whose skull found by the crew of a fishing boat in the North Sea has been issued by police. The discovery was made about 150 miles (240km) off the coast of ...

COUNCILLORS in Orkney have voted narrowly in favour of a proposed 15% increase in the islands' council tax – after rejecting a suggested rise of 20%. Officials had recommended putting the rate up by ...