It swept up the west coast of Scotland, between the Orkneys and Shetland, down the North Sea ... The SS Earl Thorfinn had set sail from Kirkwall for Westray on schedule and was caught in the ...

Hjaltland is scheduled to depart Lerwick sailing for Kirkwall and Aberdeen at 5.30pm. However, due to forecasted adverse weather this sailing may be subject to an earlier departure. Hrossey is ...

If you purchase the Highland Rover Pass from ScotRail, you'll have ferries to Skye, Mull (part of Inner Hebrides), Stromness and Kirkwall (part of Orkney) and Lerwick (part of Shetland ...

Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) plans to launch from SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands. The licensing process looked at a number of key factors. This included how safety is maintained ...

Nay Maps is a South African actor born on 30th March 1989. He is the firstborn of three children born to the late Bishop Simeon Maphalala and his wife. Maps grew up alongside his two younger sisters ...

THE UK is home to some of the best TV shows, from Call The Midwife and Gavin And Stacey, to Beyond Paradise and Shetland. We've rounded up some of the country's best-loved programmes with filming ...

Crime writer Ann Cleeves, the author of the Shetland novel series and creator of the BBC's hit TV adaptation, has announced the return of Jimmy Perez in her upcoming book. The popular detective ...

And the veteran broadcaster, 65, will welcome athletes from across the world to Kirkwall, in Orkney ... in the Games will come from Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles. UK dependencies from ...

The broadcaster will welcome athletes from 24 islands and island groups across the world to Kirkwall for the biennial ... to volunteer as part of the event. Shetland previously hosted the games ...

January 14, 2025 at 6:09 pm Plans announced in 2023 would have resulted in the coastguard helicopter response time quadrupling, Orkney and Shetland’s MP warned. The current state of readiness for ...

Canonised not much later, St Magnus remains the patron saint of Orkney and the cathedral in Kirkwall, part of which dates from 1137, is named after him. Orkney and Shetland remained a vassal earldom ...