Sanday residents have given their resounding backing to a project which could provide substantial revenue to support a programme of development for the island community over the next 20 years.

An Orcadian farmer was celebrating his second successive supreme championship at one of Scotland?s top cattle shows yesterday.

A 19-year-old woman has been told she could go to prison, after admitting she falsely told police she had been raped.

Pentland Ferries' new catamaran, which is en route to Orkney, lost power, while steaming through the Indian Ocean on her 10,000-mile journey.

The Merry Dancers (Aurora Borealis) were active for a brief period in the early hours of this morning