Places for People Scotland has joined forces with Orkney Islands Council to build 500 homes on the islands, and will be the first national housing association to do so.

Up to 500 new homes will be built in Orkney by an Edinburgh-based house builder over the next 10 years - the first time a ...

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Places for People Scotland is to become the first national housing association to build on the islands of Orkney after securing a landmark partnership with the local authority.

Orkney Harbours said several factors were to blame for the drop, but it was not necessarily looking for an increase every ...

Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution: rejoining Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a royal ...

On a recent trip to Great Britain, I decided at the last minute to snip two days off from my time in London and go somewhere I've never been before: the Orkney Islands. Perched just an hour's ferry ...

On a recent trip to Great Britain, I decided at the last minute to snip two days off my time in London and go somewhere I’ve never been before: the Orkney Islands. Perched just an hour’s ferry ride ...

LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Britain's Orkney Islands, an archipelago about 10 miles off the north coast of Scotland, is considering "alternative forms of governance" which could include becoming part ...

A new archaeological study from Orkney has challenged long-held assumptions about one of Scotland’s most mysterious races – the Picts.

A Scottish couple are selling a 19th-century church that they converted into vacation apartments. Kirkdale Apartments in Evie, Orkney, is on the market for £525,000, or around $650,900. The couple ...