The event happens in the Orkney town every Hogmanay. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as ...

For film fans across the world, the English actor Robert Shaw will always be Quint. The hard-bitten, shark-hunting, salty sea dog from Steven Spielberg's 1975 summer blockbuster Jaws was a defining ...

Stromness in Orkney has been awarded £1.44m to help regeneration. The funding, from the Heritage Lottery Fund, is for the Stromness Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) project. It will cost almost £4m ...

4 Extra Debut. Personal stories about Farewell to Stromness by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, a protest against uranium mining in Orkney. From 2019. Show more Personal stories about Farewell to Stromness, ...

A tug of war game using a log which was effectively outlawed 80 years ago is to return to the streets of Orkney. The last known game of Yule Log - which saw teams from opposite ends of Stromness ...