Sam dives into a ‘sea of sharks’, crooks profiting from a multi-billion pound industry. Craig Corse and Alice Tait feature artists appearing at this year's Orkney Folk Festival.

A unique Bengaluru house made entirely of stone without any cement has gone viral for its focus on sustainability and a net-zero carbon footprint. The design, which uses grey granite and sandstone ...

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Sasha Stone, who has been covering awards season since the ’90s, has recast herself as a voice against what she perceives as the industry’s liberal status quo. By Marc Tracy Earlier this month ...

Every year, there are about 600,000 kidney stone cases in the United States. The stones are hard mineral fragments that can form in your kidneys. Often, they’re small enough to exit your body ...

The Scottish Futures Trust has announced that thousands of tourists and travellers in the remote archipelago of Orkney (Northern Scotland) are set to benefit from “complimentary ultra-fast internet ...

A stunning 570-acre grassland farm on the Orkney Isles has launched to the market, featuring its very own private sandy cove. Noup Farm, situated on the island of Westray, represents "a unique blend ...

Historic England was also contacted and agreed to fund the excavation and subsequent analysis and conservation of the artefacts. The aim of this work was to understand the nature of the discovery and ...

Article continues below The film stars Irish talent Saoirse Ronan as Rona—who returns to her roots on Scotland's Orkney Islands after rehab—in an evocative tale of battling addiction ...

Jane spent many years at school in Kirkwall, aged 2-15 years, including WW2. She will be missed very much by her own family, and by the Glue family especially her cousins Jane, Judith, Donald and Gus.