The 20th International Island Games held in Orkney this summer boosted the local economy by £4m, a report has confirmed. The event, held over six days in July, cost £3.6m to stage and involved 1,630 ...

It's rewarding to see this report reflect, what everyone felt throughout the week; that the Games were a resounding success ...

An elderly driver has died in hospital after a crash in Orkney. The 87-year-old's Volvo V70 was involved in a collision with ...

Archaeologists are set to resume digging at a prominent Neolithic site in Orkney after making an extraordinary' discovery ...

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 ...

Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution: rejoining Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a royal ...

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

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 ...

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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, a regional government in northern Scotland, has issued a tender to buy a used BN-2 B-26, its third ...

Orkney Islands Council has named a 29-year-old as Scotland's youngest local authority leader. Heather Woodbridge also becomes the first woman to lead the island council. The independent was elected in ...