It led to names like Ceitidh Ruadh (Red-haired Katie) and Pàdraig Murchadh Moilean (Peter, son of Murdo of the eyebrows).

Once, when this question was asked, it was out of interest and the person being asked need not take fear it actually ...

A police helicopter and a dog unit have joined the search for a 26-year-old man who went missing after a car crash. Shane Donnelly, who may also be known by the surname Barr, was involved in a two ...

The real Iniesta hung up his boots last year after his final playing spell at Emirates in the UAE. It brought the curtain down on a glittering career where he became one of the world's greats, winning ...

In a world where parents prefer unique baby names with meaningful origins, there’s no better source of inspiration than the land of the free and home of the brave.

On the day Donald Trump is sworn in as US president for the second time we look back at his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was born and brought up on the Hebridean island of Lewis but emigrated to New ...

A mother and daughter are transformed by a sojourn in western Scotland. At four in the morning, far from civilization on an island in the Inner Hebrides, I woke to the drumming of rain on the canvas ...

Mauricio Pochettino is searching for his World Cup central defensive duo. He might find them both in the same place ...

My own name is my mother’s surname and when, as a child, I asked about its origins, I misheard her reply as “large Scottish clam ... One account holds that the old Celtic cross was stolen ...

Our towns used to be bathed in a warm and inviting glow. The experience now is of staggering through a monochrome nightmare.