A next-day delivery service using a self-flying drone to connect Kirkwall to four outer isles could be set to take off. Plans ...

Marine campaigners have accused Scottish ministers of continuing to allow “destructive” fishing practices to be carried out in protected ...

The families of the miners found dead in Orkney will start the grim task of identifying their bodies on Monday. Six bodies were found near an unused ventilation shaft and another 14 along a road. The ...

Here's a fun fact... the shortest commercial flight is actually from Westray to Papa Westray by Loganair, in Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The flight duration is a mind-boggling 47 seconds! Well, ...

Her smoking cessation method? She left her tobacco on the mainland and she’s currently on Papa Westray (Papay to the locals), one of Orkney’s smallest islands, with zero tobacco products for sale.

May 17, 2025 at 9:00 am Westray’s all-terrain wheelchair and rollators are now available to borrow. Three specialist mobility aids have arrived in Westray, in an investment which is hoped to improve ...

First blood donation sessions in over 15 years held in Orkney BNN-Spider 16th May 2025, 20:07 GMT+11 First blood donation sessions in over 15 years held in Orkney Read This Next Foreign travel ...

(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) TORONTO, May 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Thirty-three years ago, at 5:18 a.m. at the Westray coal mine in Pictou County, N.S., a methane explosion underground ...

TORONTO, May 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Thirty-three years ago, at 5:18 a.m. at the Westray coal mine in Pictou County, N.S., a methane explosion underground killed 26 men. Only 15 bodies were ...