A second stoat has been discovered on the remote Scottish island of Rousay after a £150,000 hunt for one of the predators during the summer.

A second stoat has been trapped and killed on Rousay in Orkney, just weeks after what was hoped to have been the island's ...

The creature, which is not native to the islands and consider invasive, was first spotted in Rousay in May.

One long-ago day around 3200 B.C., the farmers and herdsmen on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands decided to build something ...

Tonight, thick cloud, occasional showers and a few brief clear spells on the Isles, but rain redeveloping by dawn. Skies clearing in the south of the mainland but rain persisting in the north-east.

Residents on North Ronaldsay toasted the birth of Duncan Wilder Thorstein Traill Suarez Ford with a dram of whisky last week.

A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, topographic map of the region in almost 40 years. Created by the Mapping and ...

Officers travelled to the island of Flotta and executed a warrant at around 16:15 on Thursday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Yesnaby sea stack on the Orkney Islands. (Alamy) Orkney is considering breaking away from the UK and could become part of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the third time in half a century, Orkney, UK, has raised the issue of its Nordic origins and an apparent desire to embrace ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. On the windswept islands of Orkney, where the North Sea meets ...