A tug of war game using a log which was effectively outlawed 80 years ago is to return to the streets of Orkney. The last known game of Yule Log - which saw teams from opposite ends of Stromness ...

Use the arrows to drag to fade between the old and new photographs Lat:58.966 Lon: -3.297 Stromness is the second-largest town in Orkney, located in the south-west of Mainland. A long-established ...

As you wander through some of the world’s most remarkable Neolithic ruins and standing stone circles, you could be forgiven for thinking the fierce winds that blow over the remote Orkney Islands carry ...

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Stromness in Orkney has been awarded £1.44m to help regeneration. The funding, from the Heritage Lottery Fund, is for the Stromness Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) project. It will cost almost £4m ...

Items in Stromness Museum have been digitally scanned, ahead of the 100th anniversary of the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow. It has revealed that some artefacts thought to have come from ...

Ian MacInnes, artist and teacher: born Stromness, Orkney 26 January 1922; Headmaster, Stromness Academy 1977-84; married 1949 Jean Barclay (née Buchan; three daughters, one stepdaughter); died ...