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

The identity of a 1700s vessel shipwrecked in Orkney has been uncovered by archaeologists. The ship discovered on the island ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the identity of a 1700s vessel shipwrecked in Orkney. Expert say the vessel discovered on the ...

Michael Ross' lawyer hopes The Orkney Assassin documentary will lead to 'new evidence' The Orkney Assassin: Murder In The Isles examines the murder of 26-year-old Shamsuddin Mahmood who was killed ...

The mother of Michael Ross, the man incarcerated for the 1994 slaying of a Bangladeshi waiter in Orkney, crumbled into tears during a recent documentary about the crime, reports the Scottish Daily ...

A project to eradicate stoats from Orkney has been granted £4m to continue its work. The Orkney Native Wildlife Project has spent £7.9m trapping more than 6,300 stoats on the islands since 2019 ...

How to eat and drink your way around Orkney Saoirse Ronan is turning ‘The Outrun’ by Orcadian nature memoirist Amy Liptrot into a film. But the Scottish island is also carving out a place on ...

Orkney - and Shetland - have their slightly different back stories to the rest of the country. And history, while often misunderstood and routinely misreported, is not irrelevant.