Wish you weren’t here: how the tourist boom – and selfies – are threatening Britain’s beauty spots

Poldark, Instagram and the heatwave have led to a 20% spike in tourists to Cornwall this year. While crucial to the local economy, the crowds are proving overwhelming. Can a balance be found?

Hop Scots: Scottish islands passport could lead to travel discounts

Regional transport group Hitrans suggests passport scheme to boost tourism to Scotland’s 93 inhabited islands

A local’s guide to Dundee: top 10 tips

The city’s beautiful waterfront is being reinvigorated thanks to a £1bn makeover, with the stunning new V&A museum, the first outside London, as its centrepiece

‘Dynamic’ Dundee earns place on Lonely Planet’s Best in Europe 2018 hotlist

The Scottish city has a top 10 slot on this year’s list – along with Emilia-Romagna and Cantabria – as the guidebook publisher looks to reflect concerns about overtourism

Stanley Oglesby obituary

Other lives: Statistician and lover of Araucaria’s crosswords

Move to Stronsay, the Scottish island that’s open to all

Anti-tourism is not welcome on the Orkney isle, where a community group has started a campaign to attract visitors (and residents) to the remote outpost with a ‘rich cultural life and sense of freedom’

Scotland has been voted the world’s most beautiful country – here’s why

If the blue (if chilly) waters of Calgary Bay don’t charm you, perhaps the delicious dread of Glencoe will. As Scotland tops a poll as the most stunning place on the planet, a local suggests the sights for which eyes were invented

Scotland’s rocky road: a journey to the edge of Lewis – a photo essay

The road to west Lewis in the Outer Hebrides takes in wild landscapes, ancient ruins and enduring traditions – and it’s the longest dead-end in Britain

Call to save UK’s highest phone box answered by BT

BT agrees to keep “life-saving” phone box on Cairngorm in Scotland after community campaign by residents, mountaineering bodies and businesses

Wild camping: share your stories and photos

As Scotland weighs up its wild camping presumption, we want to hear about your remote camping adventures

All at sea: sailing in the Hebrides

An antique ketch in a force eight gale? A first-time sailor grabs a rope and hangs on for dear life in the high seas off north-west Scotland

Time for Turner: Glasgow’s contemporary art scene

With the Turner prize about to be presented in Glasgow for the first time, our writer samples the city’s dynamic art scene

Monster mix up on Google Maps labels Moray Firth ‘Loch Ness Lake’

A bizarre and as yet unexplained mix up on Google Maps has seen Moray Firth wrongly labelled "Scotland Loch Ness Lake"

Northern lights visit southern UK

Rare sightings of aurora borealis as far south as Essex and Jersey, with spectacular displays in Scotland and north-east England

All the fun of Fair Isle

Gavin Bell on Britain's most remote inhabited island, a wild outcrop of savage coastline, peat moors, puffins, friendly crofters and, now, a hotel