“There’s no better way to appreciate the beauty of Assynt than on foot,” according to Ken Keith, a hiking guide who lives in the namesake Scottish parish, situated in the Northern Highlands on the ...

If you’ve already bagged spots like Isle of Skye, Ben Nevis and Glen Coe, it’s worth revisiting Scotland’s lonelier highlands in Assynt . If you’ve already bagged spots like Isle of Skye, Ben Nevis, ...

In a remote north-west corner of Scotland, the battle is on to protect a population of over a hundred wych elm trees deemed of “national significance” as Dutch elm disease closes in. The fight ...

A rescue operation was launched after a person became trapped in a cave system in the Highlands on Wednesday. The individual had descended on a fixed rope into the Allt nan Uamh Stream Cave in the ...

Islands off the coast of Cornwall and a region in the far north of Scotland have been voted the most scenic areas in the UK. A survey of 5,800 Which? members found the Isles of Scilly and ...

THE people of Assynt yesterday voted by a proportion of two to one to pursue the community buyout of the mountains of Suilven and Canisp, a Victorian lodge, and 44,000 acres of deer forest. Some ...

David Hutchison's inspirational great aunt Seordag Murray, middle, with the artist's grandmother Chrissie and mother Joan A Scottish artist has drawn on his upbringing among some of the last native ...

Mark Stephen visits the memorial on Ben More Assynt where a WW2 flight crew perished during a training flight in 1941. He meets relatives of the deceased and hears their memories. In a violent ...