Two new affordable homes on the Orkney island of Eday haveattracted millions of views.

SSEN Transmission’s £1bn Orkney link project is connecting the archipelago to the GB electricity transmission network for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Visitors look at the 5,000 year-old remains of Skara Brae village in the Scottish Orkney Islands, July 19, 2005, which was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. On the windswept islands of Orkney, where the North Sea meets ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Yesnaby sea stack on the Orkney Islands. (Alamy) Orkney is considering breaking away from the UK and could become part of ...

A community engagement exercise is due to get underway this month on future plans for the UNESCO Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site.

Simply sign up to the Renewable energy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Peter Williams was told his home in the Orkney isles, 10 miles off the northernmost coast of mainland ...

A tech revolution – and an abundance of wind and waves – mean that the people of Orkney now produce more electricity than they can use It seems the stuff of fantasy. Giant ships sail the seas burning ...

Standing Stones, also known as "the First Stonehenge," in the Ring O Brodgar in Orkney © Andrew Wilson/LOOP IMAGES/Loop Images/Corbis Ten years ago a farmer was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the third time in half a century, Orkney, UK, has raised the issue of its Nordic origins and an apparent desire to embrace ...

Lord of Roslin was a Scottish nobleman. Sinclair held the title Earl of Orkney and was Lord High Admiral of Scotland under the King of Scotland. He was sometimes identified by another spelling of his ...

The Orkney Islands Council, a regional government in northern Scotland, has acquired a pre-owned Britten-Norman BN-2 B-6 ...