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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world’s only daily column that wishes we were writing from Muckle Flugga, because that’d mean we were far, far away on some kind of weird, exotic vacation.

This debut novel by award-winning poet Michael Pedersen tells the story of a lighthouse keeper and his son on the island of Muckle Flugga, the northernmost inhabited point of these islands. Although a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The setting of Scottish poet Michael Pedersen’s debut novel is the isle of Muckle Flugga, until 1995 the most ...

Near the end of Michael Pedersen’s Boy Friends, a 2022 ‘memoir of joy, grief and male friendship’, he details first encountering the Muckle Flugga Lighthouse. The Portobello poet had travelled to ...

The chance to narrate Michael Pedersen’s debut novel Muckle Flugga was an opportunity Scottish actor Jack Lowden couldn’t miss It is a quintessentially wild Scottish story about life in Britain’s most ...

The 1,800-mile, non-stop Royal Ocean Racing Club Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race got under way from Cowes yesterday in light winds - with more challenging conditions forecast later in the ...

AS a loner, I like lighthouses. Sometimes, I even think of myself as one, grim and stark, living on the edge, a rugged rock in the raging storm. Then, prodded by the tiny, rational part of my brain, I ...