The answer is surprisingly festive. 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 ...

One of the country’s most remote schools is looking for a new principal teacher. Fair Isle, in Shetland, has just two primary-aged pupils and a younger child who is set to start in nursery.

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Charting life on Fair Isle, Britain's most remote inhabited island, situated halfway between the Shetland and Orkney Islands, and with a population of just 55 ...