In 1725, Orkney’s own pirate, John Gow, raided the Hall during his last rampage around the islands. As he and his crew carried their loot back to their boat, they forced the Hall’s servant to march ...

Led by lieutenant commander Jen Smith and Rich Walker using the dive boat MV Clasina, the team sought to record ... ferrying supplies from Aberdeen to the Royal Navy’s wartime base at Scapa Flow in ...

The villagers of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire, led by local historian Barbara Berry, have dug deep into the ...

How to spend one day in Orkney, when you're taking the ferry from the Scottish mainland, and only have a few hours to spare ...

For the first time in more than 80 years the White Ensign flies on tragic destroyer HMS Exmouth – the first British surface ship lost with ...

THE trouble with asking readers to suggest ideas to include in these columns is that they come up with some very good ones ...

Kinlay Francis reflects on 15 years as an Orkney tour guide showing tourists from around the world the islands’ attractions ...

The wreck of HMS Hawke was discovered by a team of divers about 70 miles east of Fraserburgh earlier this year.

A Scottish man has landed his "dream job" as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Australian island. Sandy Duthie, 42, jumped at ...

Especially those at the beginning or end of their journeys to and from the UK – supporting daring raids and grappling with ...

A ‘time capsule’ of life aboard a wartime warship has been rediscovered by the crew of a British Royal Navy vessel.

How Donald Trump's golf dream turned into a nightmare for a small Scottish community. Guess the meaning of old Orkney words in the Whassigo panel game.