The island of Islay may not be particularly large but it holds gigantic sway over the world of Scotch whisky. The sheep-filled interior and craggy shores of the island are also home to nine (including ...

Islay is renowned for its peated single malts. Of course, not all peated whisky comes from Islay, but most of the big names do, with Lagavulin, Ardberg, and Laphroaig all feeling pretty mainstream.

A 100-year-old flag used in the funeral of U.S. troops on a small Scottish island during World War I is making it back to where it originated from as part of a remembrance of the Great War. Currently ...

An American flag hand stitched at the eleventh hour by a group of Islay women so it could be flown at a mass burial of US troops killed in a devastating torpedo attack is to return to the island to ...

Whisky? Oh no, not for me! I preferred the many full-bodied wines and the classic G&Ts. That’s what I thought. Until I planned a trip for my whisky-loving husband to the Isle of Islay, and ran ...

There's something magical about Islay (prounounced I-la). It has some of the best beaches in Britain, whisky by the barrel-load and fish so fresh you practically have to slap it. For a whisky lover, ...

It is 8.45am. I wake as candy-floss clouds gather across the ocean, dawn painting away the darkness with blush-coloured strokes. I am on a ferry in the Sound of Islay, the strait separating the ...

WITH its silver sand beaches, high sea cliffs and big, portentous skies, the Isle of Islay (Ìle in Gaelic) is well named the Queen of the Hebrides. The southernmost of the Hebrides, it enjoys a ...

Commemorations have taken place to remember the 700 men who died in two World War One disasters off Islay. Princess Anne laid a wreath at a service to mark 100 years since the tragedies, while ...