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Absence of visitors during Covid inspired a plan to help local people protect its culture from tourism

It is holiday season in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, which means ice cream, pasties and social anxiety. There are Facebook posts about parking infractions; laughter at cars left on beaches to drown (curiously not everyone seems to understand tides); the annual appearance of a basking shark at Porthcurno,…

"Never has there been a more important time to invest in our own wildlife"

Broadcaster speaks as Save Our Wild Isles campaign launches to halt destruction of nature in UK

Sir David Attenborough is fronting a new five-part BBC One series called Wild Isles which begins on Sunday and it's believed that it could be his last on location

Ashley Jensen will be playing a new detective named DI Ruth Calder, a native Shetlander who returns to the Isles after 20 years working for the Met in London.

The new series, written by Paul Logue, will be filmed in locations on the Shetland Isles and across Scotland from the spring.

Ashley will star as DI Ruth Calder, a native Shetlander who returns to the isles after 20 years working for the Metropolitan Police in London in the new series of Shetland.

This wild part of Scotland, so central to my beginnings, works like a time machine on me, says Edward Docx