They may be eerie and a little creepy, but Scotland’s often forgotten graveyards are at the centre of a new tourism boom. Sandra Dick investigates Decayed and decrepit with their eerie moss-covered ...

ROSS AND CROMARTY, SCOTLAND—BBC News reports that a large cemetery estimated to be 1,400 years old has been found on Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands. Thought to have been built by the Picts, the ...

Jason Bassett undertook a journey this week to tend a grave in Moffat cemetery. It was for a woman he had not heard of until a few days ago. At the same time, Christine Hastie from Solihull has been ...

Council officials in Edinburgh have warned that the Scottish capital is running out of space to bury its dead. The city's cemeteries are filling up rapidly - and now councillors have ordered an urgent ...

Visitors to a cemetery in Edinburgh will be escorted by council staff because of fears that unsafe headstones may fall on them. The decision was taken just days after a health and safety inspection of ...

There is a mausoleum right in the heart of Edinburgh that is supposedly haunted by one of Scotland's 'greatest villains'.

SHETLAND, SCOTLAND—A possible medieval cemetery has been uncovered at a private residence on Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands, according to a report in The Herald. The homeowner was ...

The Falkirk area is fast running out of spaces to bury people and, with most of its cemeteries full, it is looking at options ...

The public are being asked not to leave cans or bottles of alcohol on gravestones. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our ...

Births to mothers aged over 45 have grown faster in Scotland, external than anywhere else in the UK over the past 15 years, says The Herald, which reports the leader of Scotland's midwives warning ...