THINK of buses and you may think of shopping trips, old ladies loudly chatting, and schoolchildren taking up the entire upper deck. During the Second World War, The Shetland Bus was carrying a very ...

The saboteur beached his small motorized launch in the darkness of an Arctic winter, climbing ashore through a frozen scree. In the distance, he could still make out the fishing boat that had brought ...

A convoy of ships that retraced a route used for secret operations during the Second World War has arrived in Shetland after sailing from Norway. The Liberation Convoy, which followed the journey made ...

It sounds like it could be the plot of a spy novel, but the "Shetland Bus" was a real undercover operation carried out to help the resistance in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War Two. In the ...

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