Internet and phone services in Orkney, Shetland, and the Faroe Islands have been disrupted following damage to a subsea cable ...

Internet and phone services in Orkney and Shetland have been disrupted because of damage to a subsea cable. Shetland Telecom ...

Wooden remains of the Earl of Chatham, a British warship from 1749 that was used during the American Revolution, were discovered by a schoolboy on one of Scotland's Orkney Islands.

In 1788, while heading out to the whaling ground, it was wrecked in bad weather. All 56 crew members survived.

An Orkney farmer’s generous legacy will help support Scottish farming communities for years to come through RSABI and other charities.

Three bottlenose whales have been found dead on Papa Westray, one of Orkney's northernmost islands. A specialist team from ...

AN Orkney farmer has left nearly half a million pounds to a leading Scottish agricultural charity in one of the largest ...

Hundreds of people in Orkney and Shetland have had their internet and phone services disrupted because of damage to a subsea ...

A n Orkney farmer is part-funding her own abattoir so her rare breed Boreray sheep no longer have to be taken on a seven-hour ...

So Orkney seemed a logical place to investigate.' The researchers analysed the chemical and mineralogical composition of the stones in Orkney's two biggest stone circles: the Stones of Stenness ...

With no real tradition for clans or tartans, Orkney feels not "Highlander" or even "Scottish," but uniquely Orcadian. Though Orkney was inhabited by Picts from the sixth century BC, during most of ...

And Orkney’s regional powers weren’t much to begin with, the UK being one of Europe’s most centralized polities. Orkney is hoping for a reversal—and more sovereignty.