In particular, the Brough of Birsay is a hidden gem with a fascinating history. An uninhabited tidal island off the northwest ...

The Orkney Folk Festival has announced its full programme for the 2025 event. The festival, which will take place between May ...

Stuart Harding committed sex crimes against three women and two children at locations in Orkney. Marty Hay says the geese can go through an acre of crops overnight, which can cost up to £700 to grow.

Why was the Brough of Birsay, on the north west coast of the mainland of Orkney, Scotland, chosen as a settlement by the Norse? It was in a very defensible position surrounded almost entirely by ...

In sharing these stories, Tom and his team have ensured that the tales of Orkney will live on for generations to come. Once you've made your way past the Bay of Skaill, you'll end up at Birsay's ...

at venues across Orkney. While more than half of the events will take place in the festival's hometown of Stromness, performances are also planned in Birsay, Deerness, Finstown, Harray ...

Rain will develop in the western mainland in the early hours. By dawn, it will push into Orkney. Windy on the Isles. Saturday Staying windy on the Isles tomorrow with spells of showery rain for ...

A "manipulative" serial sex offender has been jailed for 15 years for a campaign of abuse involving women and girls in Orkney ... Harding, of Birsay, denied a series of charges during an earlier ...