John was held to account and humiliatingly stripped of land and influence. Far more embarrassing was he decision by King James III that the venerated title of Lord of the Isles was to be no longer ...

Today the Duchy of Cornwall owns most of the land and nearly a third of the residential buildings on the islands.

A previous helicopter service to the isles stopped in 2012, after running for almost 50 years. A helicopter link between Land's End and Isles of Scilly will not be able to land on Tresco ...