A small-ship cruise takes in the UK’s most northerly islands, which are closer to Norway’s Bergen than they are to Scotland’s ...

I’ll return home with suitcases full of tartan scarves, shamrock trinkets and Beatles memorabilia. And let’s not forget the extensive collection of magnets for my fridge — a testament to my ...

If you want to marvel at prehistoric standing stones but prefer to avoid Stonehenge crowds, this island off the coast of ...

The floating production, storage and offloading vessel planned to be upgraded for the large Buchan redevelopment in the UK North Sea has been moved to Scapa Flow in the Orkney Isles, but there are ...

The Orkney I-Port operation was launched by Royal Mail and drone firm Skyports in August last year. The electric drones take letters and parcels between islands, where staff then complete their ...

Disposable incomes for Orkney Islands residents have grown more quickly than almost anywhere else in the country since 1997, new figures show.

Orkney Islands Council has now received £80,000 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, after applying for cash to preserve it for research. A custom-designed tank, measuring eight metres by ...

But in a surprising twist, a new analysis suggests that the stone didn’t originate from Orkney, an archipelago ... earliest monuments in the British Isles. The researchers compared their ...

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New day, new country. After a night of frisky North Atlantic seas (NB: understatement), welcome to Bonnie Scotland and Kirkwall, the capital of the Orkney Isles, for a good excursion to the ...