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After spending the past ten years developing and running Cantick Head Lighthouse Cottages, Royal Navy veterans Alan an...

Saturday in Stromness during Orkney Folk Festival is a day like no other — with incredible pub sessions, a range of gigs and then the show-stopping Stomp.

Things got under way at noon, with the lunchtime lounge. Staged in the fabulously decorated Stromness Community Centre, this event — and venue — have established themselves as tent poles of the festival.

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A star-spangled affair at Picky brought a night of Americana to Orkney Folk Festival on Saturday.

String-breaking sets and a tale of rebellion at Brodgar were the cola and fries on the side of a gut-busting happy meal served up by visitors from across the pond.

But it was an invasive species that stole the spotlight at the start of the evening in th...

Original plans for one of Orkney’s most iconic wartime buildings have been discovered.

Buried away in The National Archives, historian lan Brown has found the records for Kirkwall’s famous Black Building.

Demolished in 2009, the imposing structure at Inganess Road was an important headquarters of the RAF during the Second World War.

Mr Brown, an ...