A jewellery shop, distillery, primary school, garden centre and council offices were hit during snowy weather.

As heavy snow and ice descended on Scotland this week, many flights out of Orkney ground to a halt with amber weather warnings in place.

KIRKWALL, Scotland — William Thomson’s family had played this sport for centuries, so he understood that he needed to choose between two strategies for the annual Christmas Day ba’ game. The scrawny ...

A local taxi driver offers up two stories as evidence of just how friendly Kirkwall, the largest town in Scotland's Orkney archipelago, can be. The first: He left his wallet, phone and car keys on the ...

A UK town is so friendly and welcoming residents can leave their front doors unlocked and leave their keys inside their cars. Kirkwall, in Orkney, Scotland, was voted the UK’s friendliest town in a ...

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This paper focuses on the practice of playing folk football on Christmas Day and New Year's Day in Kirkwall, Orkney, and on the idea of "embodiment" in traditional games. The comparison of empirical ...

FROM the minute you arrive in Orkney, you can tell you’re somewhere different – and utterly captivating. The archipelago’s dual heritage, Scots and Norse, gives the place unique feel, while the ...

CCTV cameras have been installed in Kirkwall to fight crime as part of a £160,000 project. The Scottish Executive has provided much of the funding for the 14 cameras in the town centre. It is the ...

Kirkwall has been named Scotland's most beautiful high street after topping a public poll. It narrowly beat Lerwick and Milngavie, receiving nearly 5,000 votes - 21% of the online poll. Lerwick ...