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

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 ...

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

The Orkney Islands had one of the highest rates of workless household in Great Britain last year, new figures suggest.

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 ...

The problems caused by a broken undersea cable in Orkney and Shetland are a warning for the UK, particularly amid reports of ...

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

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 ...

More than 250 athletes from Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark have travelled to Orkney to compete in the 20th Island Games.

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.