By Eamonn Keyes Life can be very strange, which I’m guessing most of us over the age of 18 know by now. This is the story of one of those stranger things […]
The Week That I Could Sing
Royal Mail Post Boxes, 30, Scotland
Celebrating our rural Post Boxes. Location Drum, Perth and Kinross. Sent in by Orkney News reader Rosie Hopkins.
Emma Roddick MSP: “the call to open up humanitarian corridors to let folk escape and vital supplies get in must be heard.”
I’m writing this from Aberdeen as the SNP meets for its 89th annual conference and has already passed some incredibly important resolutions, with passionate but respectful debate among members, particularly on the way […]
Royal Mail Post Boxes, 29, Orkney
Celebrating our rural Post Boxes. Location Kirkwall
“A unique, unvarnished look inside the apparatus of power.” Führer und Verführer
There is nothing new in the concept of Fake News and Disinformation. Today, however, it has become an even more powerful tool with the reach of social media, manipulating views to the […]
#NationalDictionaryDay
We might now quickly look up a word in an online dictionary but nothing is so pleasing or informative than to possess a really good dictionary (or several) that you can leaf […]
Royal Mail Post Boxes, 28, Scotland
Celebrating our rural Post Boxes. Location Beauly.
Mata Hari #OnThisDay
On 15th of October 1917 exotic dancer Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad having been found guilty of spying for the Germans. Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born 7th August […]
Royal Mail Post Boxes, 27, Scotland
Celebrating our rural Post Boxes. Location Rhitongue
Peter (Pat) Shearer, Orkney Hero
On 11th of November 1914, Peter (Pat) Shearer, Chief Officer of the steamer Hangchow lost his life whilst attempting to save a Chinese sailor who had fallen into the water outside Newchang […]
