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As I clambered over a step-stile, Papa Westray’s maritime heath opened up ahead, colonies of Scottish primrose creating a parti-coloured island view, gently sagging on three sides to the coast.
In the Highlands and islands, UK-wide dissatisfaction has been compounded by a sense that the north is getting an especially raw deal, writes Jim Hunter.
Workers who operate lighthouses across the north of Scotland are going on strike in an ongoing dispute over pay.
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Russian research ship Akademik Boris Petrov travelled through the Shetland-Orkney Gap on the afternoon of 21 October, a day after Shetland's undersea cables were cut.