On a recent trip to Great Britain, I decided at the last minute to snip two days off from my time in London and go somewhere I've never been before: the Orkney Islands. Perched just an hour's ferry ...

Scotland’s Orkney Islands will pilot two electric hydrofoil ferries that will commute between its outer islands in a three-year trial. The Orkneys are launching their electric ferry pilot with Belfast ...

LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Britain's Orkney Islands, an archipelago about 10 miles off the north coast of Scotland, is considering "alternative forms of governance" which could include becoming part ...

London — It was a pretty routine order for Dan ap Dafydd. The shopkeeper on Scotland's remote Orkney Islands was just trying to get ahead of the looming Easter holiday rush by ordering chocolate eggs ...

Orkney has been named among six new areas across the UK to benefit from a £200m National Lottery Fund to help places of ...

(CN) — Outside the northern coast of Scotland lies an archipelago of about 70 islands. Orkney and its around 22,540 habitants are unsatisfied with how things are run within the United Kingdom, making ...

The Island Games will be taking over Orkney this week, with thousands of visitors from around the world expected to descend on the Scottish archipelago. An estimated 2,000 competitors and volunteers ...

On day two of their mini-tour of Scotland, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge made their first official visit to the northeastern tip of the British Isles Kate Middleton and Prince William are on the ...

One London gallery is determined to continue the tradition embraced for centuries by the Orkney chain. By Deborah Needleman LAST MAY, THREE England-based craftspeople — the basket makers Mary Butcher ...

Scotland’s Orkney Islands – the world’s “poster child for sustainable development” – are edging closer to their 100% renewable energy goals. What’s making this possible is a disruptive business model: ...

The carved head is made of red sandstone. University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute An intricately carved head made of red sandstone has been found on one of Scotland’s Orkney ...

Councillors in Orkney have decided against introducing an overnight visitor levy for the islands, but have not ruled out backing another form of a "tourist tax". Scottish local authorities have the ...