The best-selling author behind TV series Shetland has said there could be more books featuring the exploits of DI Jimmy Perez ...

Kirkwall, with a population of 8,500, was named Britain's most welcoming town by a recent study Ailbhe MacMahon stays at the Kirkwall Hotel, tours the town's historic sites and chats to the locals ...

Concerns were raised about the impact on local birdlife around Kirkwall during the event at the Peedie Sea. About 2,000 athletes are expected as it hosts the week-long event for the first time. If it ...

With the upcoming Island Games, Orkney 12 to 18 July 2025 just around the corner, and with the anticipated participation of a Falkland Islands delegation, Mike Summers, chair of the Falklands National ...

Malcolm and Jackie Sinclair have been at the heart of the community, farming cattle and sheep as well as running a haulage business and a community shop How Farm in Sanday has been home to seven ...

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 ...

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As Prime Video release The Orkney Assassin: Murder In The Isles we take a look at where convicted murderer Michael Ross is now. Prime Video's The Orkney Assassin is now available for viewing but where ...

Regional airline Loganair has extended its contract as Orkney Islands essential air service provider. The inter-islands air service operates between Kirkwall, Orkney and the islands of Papa Westray, ...

Damage to an undersea cable which left parts of Shetland and Orkney without internet for close to two weeks was caused by a vessel dredging ...

Scotland’s Orkney Islands will pilot two electric hydrofoil ferries that will commute between its outer islands in a three-year trial. The Orkneys are launching their electric ferry pilot with Belfast ...