On the Wednesday following the last Tuesday in January, Shetland shuts down. It is the only place in Scotland to have an ...

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Caithness Junior Badminton Club came off second best in a hard-fought inter-county challenge against Orkney. A total of 37 youngsters travelled to the Pickaquoy Centre in Kirkwall to compete across ...

Consultancy firm FarrPoint has today published the results of a new study, which saw them working with the Orkney Islands Council to investigate 4G mobile coverage and network performance (mobile ...

Tommy Budge and Thelma Bruce had a joint ceremony with Tommy's older sister Violet Budge and Leslie Flett in Kirkwall, Orkney. The four have now marked the rare double platinum anniversary ...

Orkney will welcome around 2,000 athletes from 24 island groups to compete across 12 sports from July 12 to 18. It will be the first time in the Games’ 40-year history that Orkney has hosted the ...

The Right Reverend Anne Dyer - the Scottish Episcopal Church's Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney - was suspended in 2022, and was due to face a disciplinary tribunal after three complaints were made ...

It was opened after water levels reached 109-percent. At the same time, several towns in the North West saw localised flooding after heavy downpours over the last few days. eNCA's Slindelo ...

SSEN said the investment would make the existing network "more resilient" The electricity network in the north of Scotland will be improved with a £450m investment by the end of the decade, an ...

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Orkney features a variety of puffin-spotting hotspots thanks to its northern and coastal setting. In particular, the experts name the Brough of Birsay and Marwick Head as places where you are ...