Whale oil was an essential fuel of the Industrial Revolution, used to lubricate machinery, soften fabric and light city ...

Hundreds of people in Orkney and Shetland have experienced disruption to their internet and phone services because of damage ...

The 20th Island Games have come to an end after a sensational week for many of the 24 islands competing. The Faroe Islands, who will host the 2027 games, came top of the medals table with Jersey and ...

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

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

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 ...

Shop owner accidentally orders 720 chocolate Easter eggs for Scottish island with 500 people London — It was a pretty routine order for Dan ap Dafydd. The shopkeeper on Scotland's remote Orkney ...

FILE - Visitors look at the 5,000 year-old remains of Skara Brae village in the Scottish Orkney Islands, July 19, 2005, which was revealed by a huge storm in 1850.

With most of the hotels and B&Bs full, some people are turning to lodging in people's houses or camping. Others are staying in self-catering accommodation, hostels or dormitories set up in schools.

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 of Norway, its council ...

The resource-rich landscape of North Ronaldsay, the northernmost island in Scotland’s Orkney chain, where the New Craftsmen gallery held an artists’ residency earlier this year.

The Orkney Islands, situated off the north coast of the Scottish mainland, are home to more than 3,000 historical sites. Evidence has been found of human habitation there going back 8,500 years.