Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orkney has been besieged by cruise ships and tens of thousands of travellers - Iain Masterton/Alamy Outside, it was cold and dark.

(CN) — Outside the northern coast of Scotland lies an archipelago of about 70 islands. Orkney and its around 22,540 habitants are unsatisfied with how things are run within the United Kingdom, making ...

Orkney could leave the UK and become a territory of Norway under new proposals to explore “alternative forms of governance” for the archipelego. Shetlanders push for independence from Scotland One ...