The Latest Breaking News from Orkney

Shop error leaves Orkney island with more Easter eggs than people

Store’s owner hatches plan to run charity competition so one person can win 100 of the spare eggs

The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2024

Country diary: A fine time to admire fancy wildfowl

Stromness, Orkney: The raffish mergansers are here, as are the long-tailed ducks wintering from the Arctic tundra

The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2024

Orkney Islands Council leader to quit triggering by-election

THE leader of Orkney Islands Council has announced he is standing down as a councillor, triggering a by-election.

The National (Scotland) · Jan 15, 2024

Jeremy Hunt responds to Lee Anderson plan to send asylum seekers to Orkney

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has brushed off the suggestion from a Conservative Party deputy chairman that asylum seekers could be held on Orkney if the…

The National (Scotland) · Nov 23, 2023

Hunt brushes off Anderson’s idea to send asylum seekers to Orkney

The comments came a week after the Government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court.

The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2023

Scottish politicians condemn Tory MP’s asylum seekers remarks

Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson suggested asylum seekers should be sent to the Orkney Islands while their applications are processed.

The Independent UK · Nov 22, 2023

Orkney's lost tomb – how my team and I made the Neolithic discovery

Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, is renowned for its remarkably well-preserved monuments. Many of these are Neolithic (10,000 BC to 2,200 BC) and consist of stone circles and chambered tombs, which are still highly visible in the landscape. Chambered tombs are monuments built of stone with a chamber…

The Conversation · Nov 13, 2023

Northern lights dazzle in brief appearance over Stonehenge

Aurora borealis lights up much of UK and Ireland, from Orkney and Donegal to southern England

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023

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 the map as a hard-to-reach but worth-the-effort destination for foodies, finds Jessie Thompson

The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2023

Skeletons unearthed after 'incredibly rare' tomb discovered in Orkney

SKELETONS of men, women and children have been unearthed after archaeologists discovered the ruins of a 5000-year-old tomb in Orkney.

The National (Scotland) · Oct 24, 2023