Alistair Carmichael, MP for Orkney and Shetland, has been elected Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fisheries (APPG). APPG is a cross-party group in Parliament that discusses and ...

With the launch of a new manifesto, Even Here, Even Now, artists based in Shetland, Orkney and the Outer Hebrides hope to ...

Shetland is an archipelago of more than 100 islands, only 15 of which are inhabited. The islands lie around 50 miles to the northeast of Orkney and 110 miles from mainland Scotland, making them ...

418), there is an interesting letter from Mr. Laing, M.P., stating that there are no boulders in Orkney or Shetland. He says that having “an intimate personal acquaintance with these islands ...

The latest headlines from Scotland Read more stories from North East Scotland, Orkney and Shetland The subsea cable connecting Shetland and the Faroe Islands was damaged last week, with a separate ...

The Orkney Islands could change their status in the ... from the Scottish government is significantly less per head than Shetland and the Western Isles to run the same services - we can't go ...

Research led by Professor Jim Wilson, of the University of Edinburgh, used genetic data from Viking Genes, a project that concentrated on people hailing from the Orkney and Shetland Islands ...

Orkney Islands Council received emergency funding from Historic Environment Scotland for an archaeological team from Wessex Archaeology to visit Sanday on Thursday and Friday. They will survey the ...

Signs of Orkney vole activity are up 200% on 2019, while threatened ground-nesting birds are doing better, an RSPB report ...

There are various ferry services that go to each of the groups of islands, including the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland islands. If you purchase the Highland Rover Pass from ...

A NEW campaign has been launched to highlight island-based artists’ contribution to Scotland’s cultural landscape.