This low-lying, fertile island off the west coast of the Mainland is home to about 30 people, most still involved in traditional crofting. The name Papa Stour is Norse, meaning the big island of ...

A shipbuilding firm which received millions of pounds of public funding to develop an electric ferry serving Papa Stour has ...

A remote island community is losing its weekly air service for the next few months because there has been too much rain. The runway on the Shetland island of Papa Stour is made of mortar with a high ...

THE lifeline air service to one of Scotland’s most remote island communities could be suspended for up to four months because of the deteriorating condition of the isle’s waterlogged airstrip. Sign up ...

There are currently no posts from this island. Isle of Papa Stour This low-lying, fertile island off the west coast of the Mainland is home to about 30 people, most still involved in traditional ...

People living in one of the remotest parts of Scotland are to get a high-speed broadband link from space. The UK government has announced that residents on Papa Stour, an island to the west of the ...

Papa Stour, one of the UK’s most remote islands, is going to see its internet connectivity transformed overnight. The Government has announced that work to connect the 3.2-square-mile island to ...

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Britain's smallest school, with only one pupil on the register on the Shetland island of Papa Stour, is empty. BBC Scotland can reveal that the teacher is turning up for work, but its sole pupil is ...