The number of families who received child benefit in the Orkney Islands increased last year, bucking the national trend, new ...

The number of curlew wading birds in Orkney is on the rise again after a drive to reduce the number of predatory stoats. The ...

The Orkney Native Wildlife Project began removing stoats in 2019 and the latest survey, which covered 100 sites and recorded pairs of wading birds per square kilometre, showed a modest recovery since ...

If there were such a thing as a time machine that we could use to journey 5,000 years into the past, we would find a very different world to the ...

An island community is set to become the first in Scotland to buy a protected ancient ... as being “crucial” to the understanding of Orkney’s Neolithic past. All hopes are now pinned on ...

The Orkney islands are known for their ancient heritage sites, while Islay's whisky is world-famous. However, there is no island quite like Tiree. Known as Scotland's 'Sunshine Island', it is the ...

Consultancy firm FarrPoint has today published the results of a new study, which saw them working with the Orkney Islands Council to investigate ... publish their coverage maps, these are based on ...

Fighter jets have been scrambled and circled around Scotland to confront an unidentified aircraft following a NATO alert, confirmed the RAF. And a second plane, a Eurofighter Typhoon, with a call ...

Orkney will welcome around 2,000 athletes from 24 island groups to compete across 12 sports from July 12 to 18. It will be the first time in the Games’ 40-year history that Orkney has hosted the ...

Know about Orkney Island Airport in detail. Find out the location of Orkney Island Airport on United Kingdom map and also find out airports near to Orkney Island. This airport locator is a very useful ...

The Coll Hotel’s dining room is a delight with lobster, crab, langoustine and squat lobster fresh from the island ... less than an hour. Orkney Mainland From mainland Scotland take the Northlink ...