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Icy winds, but stunning scenery: Shetland named best place to live

They may be 100 miles from the mainland, with biting cold winds, no trees and barely three hours of daylight in the depths of winter, but the Shetland Islands are the best place in Scotland to live, a quality of life survey claimed yesterday.

They may be 100 miles from the mainland, with biting cold winds, no trees and barely three hours of daylight in the depths of winter, but the Shetland Islands are the best place in Scotland to live, a quality of life survey claimed yesterday.