An "excavation" on social media has provided names for four women shown in pictures of a dig in Orkney. The women - shown in photographs taken in 1929 - had been assumed to be tourists or visitors.

An Orkney charity is supporting 40 female prisoners in Zimbabwe by giving them work knitting toy animals. GoGo Olive teaches inmates at Mutare Remand Prison how to knit and offers them the ...

Life expectancy at birth for women in the Orkney Islands is one of the best in Scotland, new figures show. It comes as the King's Fund, a health think tank, said the Government's goal of improving ...

An 82-year-old woman who died following a two-car crash in Orkney has been named. Whilma Hutchison, from Finstown, died in hospital following the accident on the A965 at Cursiter at about 18:40 on ...

As athletes prepare for the Island Games in Orkney this summer, Lorraine Kelly has been announced as the host of the opening ...

DOMESTIC violence support workers in Orkney and Shetland have seen a massive rise in their caseloads, charity Women’s Aid announced yesterday. Orkney Women’s Aid has seen a 40 per cent increase in its ...

The Falklands have become the latest football team to withdraw from taking part at the Orkney Island Games. The Falklands, who were third reserves, accepted a late invitation to the games but have now ...

The queen of daytime television in Britain will be hosting the opening ceremony at the Island Games in July. Lorraine Kelly, ...