LONDON (AP) — When a schoolboy going for a run found the ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a remote Scottish beach, it sparked a hunt by archaeologists, scientists and local historians ...

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 ...

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The medals for the Orkney Island Games have been revealed with 100 days to go until the event begins. From 12–18 July, Orkney will welcome about 2,000 athletes from 24 island groups to compete in 12 ...

The Island Games will be taking over Orkney this week, with thousands of visitors from around the world expected to descend on the Scottish archipelago. An estimated 2,000 competitors and volunteers ...

The RSPB said latest data indicated a 21% rise in curlews in Orkney, in contrast to mainland Scotland and other parts of the UK The number of curlew wading birds in Orkney is on the rise again after a ...

Contact with nature on Scotland's sea-lashed Orkney and Shetland islands is constant and thrilling as is the magnificent solitude. Yet the ancient stones here also hum with millennia of accumulated ...

Geography can be misleading. The islands of Orkney might look remote on the map — trace your finger up to John o' Groats, then keep going north — but the truth is slightly different. The archipelago's ...