If you're one-half of a resilient and self-reliant couple and would like to spend the summer on a remote island in Scotland, ...

It's almost 80 years since the end of World War Two, during which Orkney became home to hundreds of Italian prisoners of war. But links forged between the island community and the former prisoners ...

Despite Orkney’s unforgivable weather, travellers seem to fall in love with the islands easily, perhaps because of the barely believable geography. Look to Hoy’s sea stacks and you see the ...

Life expectancy at birth for women in the Orkney Islands is one of the best in Scotland, new figures show. It comes as the King's Fund, a health think tank, said the Government's goal of improving ...

Seventy-seven long-finned pilot whales washed ashore on Thursday on Sanday island ... the Orkney archipelago off Scotland. Sixty-five of them were already dead, the British Divers Marine Life ...