The Latest Breaking News from Orkney

Stromness, Orkney: The raffish mergansers are here, as are the long-tailed ducks wintering from the Arctic tundra

THE leader of Orkney Islands Council has announced he is standing down as a councillor, triggering a by-election.

RESIDENTS living in Orkney have been left baffled by the stranding of thousands of fish on beaches in Shapinsay and Finstown.

EU funding for Nova's tidal farm off the coast of Orkney is a “huge vote of confidence” in Scotland, the firm behind the project has said.

Lee Anderson defends ‘inhumane’ remarks about asylum-seekers and tells Ursula von der Leyen to ‘shut up’

Nova has won European Union funding to build the farm off the coast of Orkney.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has brushed off the suggestion from a Conservative Party deputy chairman that asylum seekers could be held on Orkney if the…

The comments came a week after the Government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court.

Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson suggested asylum seekers should be sent to the Orkney Islands while their applications are processed.

Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, is renowned for its remarkably well-preserved monuments. Many of these are Neolithic (10,000 BC to 2,200 BC) and consist of stone circles and chambered tombs, which are still highly visible in the landscape. Chambered tombs are monuments built of stone with a chamber…

Aurora borealis lights up much of UK and Ireland, from Orkney and Donegal to southern England