It may feel like summer has just started, but the nights will start to draw in before the end of June. It’s all terribly ...

You don't hear the impending arrival of a whale at first; you feel it. There's a shift in the atmosphere, a sudden silence, and then a blow with a breath so heavy that it cuts through the air with ...

But he remained free for years before being jailed for the shooting to death at point blank range of Shamsuddin Mahmood at an Orkney Islands restaurant in Scotland. Ross was finally brought to ...

So says Robbie Fraser, a member of the organising board for Orkney 2025 – the 20th edition of the Island Games, a biannual multi-sport competition that you could describe as the Olympics of ...

This time around we're favoring clothing and accessories featuring sunset hues, including oranges, reds, pinks, yellows and ...

Stoats are small, carnivorous mammals that were first recorded in Orkney in 2010. A 2017-2019 survey of wading birds in Orkney revealed that the number of curlews in the isles had declined by more ...

Curlew numbers are on the rise after an initiative to remove stoats from Orkney (Ian Francis/PA) The Orcadian curlew population is on the rise following an effort to reduce the numbers of an ...

Additional exhibits include information on the Queen St./Sunset Hills Schools with Marquetta Mitchell ... “We hope visitors will take away an understanding of the origins of Orkney Springs and its ...

Conservationists are celebrating the success of a large-scale stoat removal project in Orkney. The non-native mammals have wreaked havoc on indigenous birds and voles since their arrival on the ...

It was then assumed by experts that it came from Orkney due to its Neolithic culture ... the winter solstice sunrise to summer solstice sunset alignment, and the summer solstice sunrise to winter ...