Orcadian

Erland Cooper

The Scotsman Sessions #351: Erland Cooper

Carol Anderson (left) hands over chanters to the Barbados Defence Force Band, with hopes to set up a pipe band with young army cadets. PIC: Contributed.

Bagpipes, tartan and reggae set to meet under the beating Barbados sun

Pinkie Maclure and John Wills, aka Pumajaw

Scapa Foolscap: Pumajaw on their new Orkney-inspired album

Harry Josephine Giles's verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia is ambitious and enjoyable, says Laura Waddell

Sci-fi verse novel in Orcadian adds lustre to poet’s rising star – Laura Waddell

Harry Josephine Giles

The Scotsman Sessions #267: Harry Josephine Giles

Douglas Montgomery and Brian Cromarty performed as the duo Saltfishforty at the HebCelt Survivor Sessions last week.

Global reach for HebCelt's 'Survival Sessions' a huge achievement

Alison Miller, the new Orkney Scriever, will encourage islanders to write in their mother tongue. PIC: Orkney Photographic.

Spotlight on Orcadian as language champion appointed

The poet George Mackay Brown (Picture: Werner Forman Archive/Shutterstock)

Books - George Mackay Brown's Orkney Vision

The North Sea may be entering its sunset years but there is still a flurry of activity for late-life assets and fresh discoveries being made.

North Sea oil field firm Orcadian to raise millions in stock market flotation

Gnoss, from left to right: Graham Rorie, Craig Baxter, Aidan Moodie and Connor Sinclair

From Paris to the Arctic: Orcadian fiddler Graham Rorie on his exotic lockdown p...

Portraits of Margaret Tait

Book review: Personae, by Margaret Tait

Politicians should have made it more clear that Christmas would have to be different this year, says Ayesha Hazarika (Picture: Shutterstock)

Why Christmas is cancelled this year for me – Ayesha Hazarika

Erland Cooper

The Scotsman Sessions #45: Erland Cooper

Kate Horsley ‘found Frankenstein’s bride in Orkney’

Big Brother winner backing the Union

Book review: The History of Orkney Literature, Simon H Wall

Comedy review: Martin "Bigpig" Mor

First Ortak 'boutique' outlet opens

Cannibalism and cover-up: Why history spurned Orkney's John Rae

The arcadian days of the Orcadian

Secret life of the white headhunter

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Deposit return scheme

Deposit return scheme: Scottish proposals shelved until 2025

Humza Yousaf labelled 'weak' for failing to discipline serial rebel Fergus Ewing

Police called after pupil dies in 'incident' at Lewis Capaldi's old school