Why was the Brough of Birsay, on the north west coast of the mainland of Orkney, Scotland, chosen as a settlement by the Norse? It was in a very defensible position surrounded almost entirely by ...

Why was the Brough of Birsay, on the north west coast of the mainland of Orkney, Scotland, chosen as a settlement by the Norse? It was in a very defensible position surrounded almost entirely by ...

James Mainland was reported missing from his home in Birsay almost two weeks ago. The body of a man has now been found nearby. Police Scotland said it was still in the very early stages of its ...

Tonight looks to continue cloudy for Shetland and the southern and the far eastern mainland. Clear spells and variable cloud elsewhere, but mist and fog for the western mainland. Breezy on the ...

A strange anomaly, however, was met with. In Birsay and in St. Andrews, in the Orkneys, the cancer mortality is practically as great as in Sanday, yet peat only is burned. Investigation showed ...

From Lord Patrick, who was shot down over German lines and captured in France in 1918, to Laura Kuenssberg’s grandfather, ...

According to investigators, the aircraft departed Rosetown Airport, to crop dust a field near Birsay and "after the first ...