3+ hour, 10+ min ago   (499+ words) This setting applies to this browser only. The leader of Papa Stronsay’s monks has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church — on the same day he was named a bishop. Father Michael Mary defied the Vatican by going through with a…...

10+ hour, 43+ min ago   (481+ words) This setting applies to this browser only. The leader of Papa Stronsay’s monks has been made a bishop, in defiance of the Vatican. A ceremony took place on the island, this Saturday, to consecrate Father Michael Mary. It was carried…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (168+ words) This setting applies to this browser only. A 22-year-old man has died after reportedly falling from a boat yesterday afternoon. Emergency services were called out to an incident between Hoy and Stromness, which is understood to have involved a salmon…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (129+ words) This setting applies to this browser only. Emergency services have attended an incident in Stromness involving a salmon farming vessel, this afternoon. HM Coastguard was called out to an incident between Hoy and Stromness at at 2.22pm. A search and rescue…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (407+ words) This setting applies to this browser only. Trips to conferences for Orkney’s marine staff have racked up a £25,000 bill in each of the last two years, The Orcadian can reveal. Sending two staff members to a cruise industry soiree in…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1202+ words) This setting applies to this browser only. The Orcadian’s Alex Ross swapped her pen for a trowel as she took part in the “dig of a lifetime” at Brodgar, last week. The archaeologist-turned-journalist turned her hands to both professions to…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (730+ words) This setting applies to this browser only. A COLOSSAL cabbage which would — quite literally — bowl over the competition at any horticultural show, has sprouted in a West Mainland polytunnel. Joan Mowat has been left to wonder whether there is something…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (611+ words) This setting applies to this browser only. As the main event of the year in the Stromness calendar is set to begin on Wednesday, this year’s Shopping Week Queen is delighted to have been awarded the role. Arwen West, who…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (259+ words) This setting applies to this browser only. Loganair is to buy five electronic CX300 aircraft, which are expected to enter service in 2029. This would make Loganair Europe’s first commercial airline operating an electric aircraft fleet. The agreement with BETA Technologies builds…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (637+ words) This setting applies to this browser only. The local authority did not respond when The Orcadian asked if a disciplinary process was under way. The authority only reiterated its previous statement from May 25, that Mr Reid is on “special leave....