Clever, emotional – and well worth the hype
I couldn’t get a table at Skof for ages: it was too full, too booked up and far too busy. It seemed there’d be no lightly set miso custard with hen of the w…
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Neolithic treasures and sparkling seas on Orkney – all for £2 bus fares ⊕⊕
A new cap on bus fares in the Highlands and islands makes exploring this stunning archipelago in Scotland a breeze
The views are remarkable. From one window, gorse-gold hills roll west towards mountai…
34 days ago
Body is found in search for missing monk, 24, who vanished from remote monastery on Scottish island ⊖
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
The body, which has yet to be identified, was recovered at around 7.35am on Wednesday at Stronsay in Orkney, Police Scotland said.
42 days ago
The young walrus drawing crowds as he tours the Scottish coast ○
The mammal was first seen in Orkney but has since been making a splash in the north-east of Scotland.
44 days ago
‘I needed to be in that strange, flat place’: how an Orkney garden healed a writer ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
After her sister died, Victoria Bennett left Cumbria for the remote Scottish archipelago, where she learned to go with the ebb and flow of life
It was during her first winter in Orkney that the nature…
53 days ago
More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project ⊕
Exclusive: Experts say scheme will help repair damaged marine ecosystems while sequestering large amounts of carbon
More than 15m juvenile oysters are to be released into the North Sea in one of the b…
67 days ago
Week in wildlife: a meep-meep roadrunner, a new frog species and Orkney voles ⊕
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
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Weekly quiz: Why did bananas cause a stir in Orkney? ○
How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days?
70 days ago
What a slip-up! The shop in Orkney that accidentally ordered 38,000 bananas ⊖
The Kirkwall branch of Tesco meant to buy 380kg of fruit. Instead, it placed an order for 380 boxes – each containing 100 pieces
Name: Banana bonanza.
Age: A few days old – and getting riper by the min…
71 days ago
Native vole population is climbing on Orkney thanks to stoat eradication plan - with other species thriving too ⊕
A new report reveals vole activity in spring 2025 reached its highest level since 2019, when a major project to protect Orkney's wildlife from non-native predators first began.