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

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 ...

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 ...

Heavy rainfall has led to widespread disruption on roads across Orkney. Part of the Grainshore Road on the outskirts of ...

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 ...

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 councillors have voted to investigate alternative methods of governance amid deep frustrations over funding and opportunities. Council leader James Stockan said the islands had been "held down" ...

"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 ...

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 ...