On a recent trip to Great Britain, I decided at the last minute to snip two days off from my time in London and go somewhere I've never been before: the Orkney Islands. Perched just an hour's ferry ...

Hidden beneath sand for 4,000 years, Skara Brae is Europe’s best-preserved Neolithic village. Built before Stonehenge, its stone beds, dressers, and drains reveal how prehistoric families lived on ...

Salt on the breeze, stone underfoot, and shop windows that still change with the seasons: this town moves at human speed. On ...

Could this beautiful island manor, located next to a world-famous Neolithic site and above a Pictish burial ground, be the ...

LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Britain's Orkney Islands, an archipelago about 10 miles off the north coast of Scotland, is considering "alternative forms of governance" which could include becoming part ...

Seabirds wheel, red sandstone glows, and a single street funnels island life into one colourful spine of shops and stories. In 2019, Kirkwall’s main ...

A SCOTS radio show was thrown into chaos live on air this morning after its system crashed. BBC Radio Orkney’s 7.30am show ...

Standing Stones, also known as "the First Stonehenge," in the Ring O Brodgar in Orkney © Andrew Wilson/LOOP IMAGES/Loop Images/Corbis Ten years ago a farmer was ...

Orkney Islands Council has secured a £62.1m loan from the National Wealth Fund to build its six-turbine Quanterness wind farm ...

It is, at last count, Scotland’s cleanest council. But Orkney is still having to spend a penny - or rather more - on a very particular problem. The islands’ local authority, rather coyly, has said it ...

"It flies cleaner and is more efficient" - Hybrid-electric plane trialled over Scotland Scotland's first electric-powered aircraft has taken to the skies from a new test centre in Orkney. One of the ...