Fran Hollinrake, curator of Kirkwall’s St Magnus Cathedral, was standing in front of a series of medieval relics – a ...

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In October, Professor Judith Jesch of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for the Study of the Viking Age led a group of 20 runologists from Scandinavia, Britain and Germany to study Orkney’s ...

Hundreds of schools across northern Scotland will remain closed on Monday as severe weather warnings for snow continue to ...

The current level of the payment is £27.15 per week. The finance secretary says there will be an investment of almost £68bn ...

Scotland faces travel disruption as weather warnings stay in place - A previous amber warning has been downgraded.

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Aquarius and John Coe are the last known members of a small group of UK orcas A sea life survey off Scotland's west coast has recorded rare sightings of what are believed to be the last surviving ...

Storm Goretti is set to bring heavy snow, strong winds and freezing temperatures across central and southern parts of the UK.