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Lorraine Kelly named Orkney Island Games host
Presenter Lorraine Kelly will host the opening ceremony of the Island Games in Orkney this summer. The broadcaster will welcome athletes from 24 islands and island groups across the world to ...
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DI Jimmy Perez moves to Orkney in new Cleeves book
Ann Cleeves' new book, The Killing Stones, picks up after a gap of seven years and will see Perez swap his hometown of Shetland for a new island location, Orkney. The latest book, from the author ...
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How Orkney’s archaeology is stealing the show on the small screen
They say that if you stick a spade into the ground in Orkney, you’ll probably find an archaeological site. Incredible new discoveries sit alongside the hundreds of fascinating archaeological ...
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Three suspects accused of stabbing Orkney resort owner to spend New Year behind bars
Three suspects accused of stabbing Orkney resort owner appeared in the Orkney Magistrates’ Court on Friday where they were remanded in custody. The men, Hanyane Ronauld Mei, 47, Danile Nxamakele ...
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Discover the Astounding Secrets of Scotland’s Stone Age Settlements
In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...
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From Michoacán, Mexico, to Swandro: Climate change impacts iconic heritage sites
Knowe of Swandro pictish house looking out towards Costa Hill on the mainland Orkney. (photo credit: Bronwyn Chomitz is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons) On the night of July 29 ...
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Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.
If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...
Georgia O’Keeffe at Home
T he photographer Todd Webb met Georgia O’Keeffe in the 1940s, at Alfred Stieglitz’s gallery An American Place. O’Keeffe ...
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Photo Galleries
For more photo galleries, see our archive. A collection of images donated anonymously to a Hungarian photo archive capture pitched battles in Timisoara, the city where Romania's revolution broke ...
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Drugs bust in Orkney after as police find heroin in car
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How women on the Orkney island of Sanday ‘knitted themselves a bathroom’
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Orkney
Sports managers in Jersey and Guernsey are making preparations for the Orkney event. The presenter said it was a chance to showcase her "happy place" to the world ahead of the event this summer.