where mourners had to walk a mile from the church to the cemetery and, sadly, no baptisms in his five years in charge. Foula - meaning 'bird island' in old Norse - was the location for the film ...

where mourners had to walk a mile from the church to the cemetery and, sadly, no baptisms in his five years in charge. Foula, meaning 'bird island' in old Norse, was the location for the film The ...

Just 30 permanent residents live on Foula, which lays claim to being Britain's most remote inhabited island and operates on a different calendar to the rest of the UK. I learned several new words ...

David Pollock finds a memoir of life on the remote outpost of Foula highlights the present challenges to its survival ask Christopher Mylne about the island of Foula’s reputation as “the next ...

LOCALS living on Britain's most remote island have told how they don't even have a pub - but could never be lonely. Sheila Gear, 82, originally from Oxford, has lived in Foula for 61 years - now ...

And there are a number of ways of island life that those on the mainland would struggle to understand. Sheila Gear, 82, was originally from Oxford but has lived in Foula for the past 61 years and ...

In Foula it's family-focussed, it's more intimate, and we are always playing music together. It's something the island is known for. It's a good bonding thing. It is how we have always done it." ...

The island of Foula – a Shetland island off the coast of Scotland – is perhaps unsurprisingly where Shetland ponies originated from and horses have apparently lived there since the Bronze Age ...

From the BBC's documentary series Look Stranger in 1973, we learn about life on the remote Shetland island of Foula and the difficulties such a location poses to its inhabitants. Show more Eadar ...

A remote Shetland island is celebrating its traditional New Year's Day - two weeks after other parts of the world. Foula - which is home to fewer than 40 people - never fully adopted the modern ...