Fair Isle's famous bird observatory has reopened - six years after the building was destroyed in a huge fire. The £10m ...

BBC1 is about to screen an engrossing two-part documentary about Fair Isle. Crafted by BAFTA-winning director Louise Lockwood, the films follow residents over the course of a full year, showing ...

The wrens on Shetland, Fair Isle and the Outer Hebrides are all regarded as distinct sub-species from their mainland cousins due to slight variances in size, plumage and marginally different songs.

Fair Isle has since been adopted as a general term for multicoloured knitwear, but there are still small numbers of garments produced on the island from patterns which have been handed down ...

The Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust said the internationally-renowned research centre in Shetland would not now reopen later this year, as planned. The previous building was destroyed by fire in ...

Fair Isle lies half way between Shetland and Orkney and has a population of about 60. It's just three miles long by half a mile wide. The remote island is famous for its knitwear and birds, not ...

Its Fair Isle knits have sold out three times already. The other problem the islanders face is that the knitters are not getting any younger. Ms Fritschi said her "ladies" range from 72 to 85 ...

The most authentic Fair Isle knits are still made in Scotland such as those by London Fashion Week designer Molly Goddard (from £400, mollygoddard.com) and the island’s most well-known knitter ...

The Fair Isle knit, a two-stranded knitting tradition originating off the coast of Scotland, has been a wardrobe staple for well over 100 years — keeping everyone from 18th century fisherman to ...

Fair Isle has since been adopted as a general term for multicoloured knitwear, but there are still small numbers of garments produced on the island from patterns which have been handed down ...