The Latest Breaking News from Orkney

MORE than one in four households in the Scottish island regions of Orkney and the Western Isles now have a certified renewable energy installation,…

After one final dig, Ness of Brodgar is to be covered up to protect it for future generations

EU funding for Nova's tidal farm off the coast of Orkney is a “huge vote of confidence” in Scotland, the firm behind the project has said.

Lee Anderson defends ‘inhumane’ remarks about asylum-seekers and tells Ursula von der Leyen to ‘shut up’

Nova has won European Union funding to build the farm off the coast of Orkney.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has brushed off the suggestion from a Conservative Party deputy chairman that asylum seekers could be held on Orkney if the…

The comments came a week after the Government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court.

Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson suggested asylum seekers should be sent to the Orkney Islands while their applications are processed.

Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, is renowned for its remarkably well-preserved monuments. Many of these are Neolithic (10,000 BC to 2,200 BC) and consist of stone circles and chambered tombs, which are still highly visible in the landscape. Chambered tombs are monuments built of stone with a chamber…