Archaeologists make 'extraordinary discovery' in Orkney - but won't say what it is
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
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11 days ago
Expert on killer's defence team now believes he is guilty ⊖
A BBC documentary series sheds new light on the murder of waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood in Orkney in 1994.
35 days ago
Orkney Islands under siege from cruise ships full of anti-social tourists who take over buses, clog roads... and defecate next to neolithic landmarks
Locals on a windswept Scottish island claim they are under siege from thousands of anti-social tourists every year with the situation so stark that visitors who are caught short are now defecating.
41 days ago
Cruise control: could a £5 ‘entry’ fee help balance Orkney’s needs with tourist demand? ⊕⊕
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With tourists outnumbering locals by 20:1, islanders say levy is needed to help protect neolithic sites and maintain public services
Artisan jewellery, gift and whisky shops crowd the main street of K…
43 days ago
How to cope with long winter nights when the clocks go back ⊕
More than a million people in the UK experience symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder - but a project is aiming to help people in Orkney look after their mental health.
49 days ago
‘There were stoats in kitchen cupboards’: AI deployed to help save Orkney’s birds ⊕⊕
Stoats have been an existential threat to Orkney’s rare birds but technology is helping to eradicate them
At first, the stoat looks like a faint smudge in the distance. But, as it jumps closer, its sl…
50 days ago
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup ⊖
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Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan; The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves; The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer; Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet; The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek
Quantum of Menace by Vaseem …
60 days ago
‘It’s more than a pretty backdrop’: crime writer Ann Cleeves on the magic of Orkney in Scotland ⊕
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With her latest book, the author moves detective Jimmy Perez from Shetland to Orkney, where she was inspired by the deep history, huge skies and warm people
Fifty years ago, I headed north for the fir…
3 months ago
Row review – impressive, largely unknown cast keep seagoing horror afloat
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A woman washes up on the Orkney island of Hoy, the only survivor of a transatlantic sortie in Matthew Losasso’s debut feature, a twisty if murky chiller
Water, like the human psyche, is unpredictable …
UK's most remote inhabited island looking for nurse to be only medic
Fair Isle - which is located halfway between Orkney and Shetland - is home to about 50 people.