HAVING been to Unst in the Shetland Islands, I didn’t blink at the news that rockets will soon start blasting off from the UK’s first vertical launch space station– Scotland’s most northerly inhabited isle is already its most otherworldly.
Stevenson is said to have based the map for Treasure Island on Unst; killer whales regularly accompany the ferry, a bus shelter wins arts awards; a gin distillery has resurrected an old RAF base – and the local birds knock you off your feet.
