Peter Leith (L) made the journey from Orkney to Shetland on U-Boat as a sea cadet A man from Orkney has been recalling how he took to sea in a German U-boat as a young sea cadet in a once-in-a ...

The death of a recreational diver off Orkney was "almost certainly" the result of being struck by a boat's propeller, investigators have said. Diver Paul Smith, 70, from Greater Manchester ...

Shipwreck hunters in Scotland have located the wreck of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat in the North Sea ... a researcher with the Orkney-based Lost in Waters Deep group ...

Orkney’s largest tomb ... ferrying them out from the Scottish mainland in skin boats, braving miles of open water and treacherous currents. The herds they raised grew fat on the island ...

An icon of a desk calendar. An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. An icon of a paper envelope. An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. An icon ...

Sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor created The Alluvia for the River Stour in his hometown of Canterbury, but an online backlash ...

They were on their final decompression stop about 10ft below the surface when Mr Smith was struck by the rotating propeller of the support boat Karin. The bulletin said: ‘The crew of the second ...

When is a boat not a boat A When its a story In A Boat Retold artist Ian Stephen writer Robert Macfarlane and others tell stories in and around the restored Orkney boat Broad Bay as it sets off ...

Nigel Thompson sails from Iceland to Denmark via the Orkney Islands and the Scottish Highlands, spotting wildlife, ...

The actual source of the stone remained unknown until now. One archaeologist said it was a "surprise that it's come from so ...