The Shetland Bus missions which ferried soldiers, spies and supplies from Scotland to Nazi-occupied Norway are being honoured next month. A peacetime convoy of former Second World War vessels will ...

Without the Norwegian sailors who risked their lives in the war, the Allied front might have collapsed and thousands could ...

The Liberation Convoy was partly made of historic vessels that once sailed the daring North Sea route during WWII ...

It sounds like it could be the plot of a spy novel, but the 'Shetland Bus' was a real undercover operation carried out to ...

Mr Larsen was one of the most famous men who operated the Shetland Bus, having barely escaped Norway in February 1941 in a ...

The Shetland Buses played a critical yet little known role in helping liberate Norway from German occupation during the Second World War.

Anyone who has flown across the North Sea over the past few years cannot help but be awed by the number of static structures ...

The local lifeboat and a replica Viking longboat were among those joining crowds of people at Lerwick Harbour as part of the special journey to commemorate the heroics of the ‘Shetland Bus’ crews.

The Shetland Bus convoys were part of the Norwegian branch of the SOE, supporting the resistance movement in Norway. Between 1940 and 1945, they made 200 North Sea crossings, transporting hundreds ...