It signalled the end of not only his own long career in guiding sailors to safety in the country’s most hazardous waters but also Scotland’s 200-year-old tradition of lighthouse keeping.

With an incredible coastline and over 900 islands, it's no surprise that Scotland has its fair share of lighthouses. Striking structures built to weather any storm as well as the attentions of the ...

Mr Gault had been a lighthouse keeper for 32 years and was based at 22 different stations across Scotland during his career. His duties ranged from maintaining the lights to polishing the ...

The workers maintain and operate Scotland’s lighthouses, beacons and buoys at sea. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Unite’s NLB members have been left with no option but to take ...

One of Scotland's most enduring enigmas is the mysterious disappearance of the Eilean Mor lighthouse keepers. For over a century, historians have been piecing together the puzzle of how three men ...

A cottage near a lighthouse in Scotland is up for sale – and it’s in one of the UK’s most remote, private and naturally spectacular locations. The cottage is in Strathy Point, a rocky ...

Lighthouse workers in Scotland will strike on Thursday as they seek an improvement on a 2% pay offer from the UK Department for Transport and the Lights Advisory Committee. Around 40 Unite ...

It is one of Scotland's enduring mysteries, a haunting incident at a remote lighthouse twenty miles west of Lewis that has inspired poets, composers and even rock bands. Now the mystery of the ...

transcript Mechanical engineers found an old glass bottle with a message in a cavity in a wall at Corsewall Lighthouse in southwest Scotland. “Oh, oh, oh. Yeah, it’s got proper [unclear ...