A huge transformation has taken place in Orkney to make it the setting for the largest international multi-sport event to ...

With the upcoming Island Games, Orkney 12 to 18 July 2025 just around the corner, and with the anticipated participation of a Falkland Islands delegation, Mike Summers, chair of the Falklands ...

At a time when most of the UK is worried about their energy bills, Scottish quartet Fara have released an album which unwittingly taps into one of the hottest topics of the moment. News you can ...

The beloved Scots presenter Lorraine Kelly has been announced as the host of the Island Games opening ceremony in Orkney this summer. The Island Games will see athletes from 24 islands and island ...

The medals for the first International Island Games to be held in Orkney will feature an image of the islands' famous standing stones. Jodie Brown, 23, from Kirkwall, designed the medals and won a ...

The Princess Royal will officially open the 20th International Island Games in Orkney this summer. Princess Anne will attend the opening of the week-long event at Kirkwall's Bignold Park on 12 July.

In the islands' case, we don't know how much tax it raises. But government's revenue grant to Orkney is £3,205 per head - £200 below Shetland and £900 less than the Western Isles, but a lot ...

WHEN the organisers of the Orkney Folk Festival decided to get some local musicians to perform together as a makeshift band in 2014 they could not… ...