While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts.

The closure of the main Post Office in Kirkwall is just yet another example, in the long story of the once great Royal Mail, of the wrecking actions of successive UK Governments. The damage to this service, once the envy of many other countries, set in with The  Postal Services Act 2011. Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, was a member of the LibDem/Conservative Coalition Government.

By Amber-Louise Thornborrow Fifty-six years ago, on the evening of the 17th of March 1969, the volunteer crew of the TGB lifeboat assembled, venturing out into a south-easterly force…

“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”

On September 8th, the PISA results came out, detailing how almost a million 15-year olds across the world performed in standard tests for reading, mathematics, and science. The PISA results have becom...

To put it plainly, based on the reading of two prominent academics in England, the sample from English schools is light on the percentage of pupils with special needs. This echoes the problems of r…

In August of 1926, the public was shocked over a story which was splashed all over the newspapers of the day. The Orkney Herald carried the headline 'Kitchener Hoax Exposed: Mystery Coffin Opened and Found Empty.' This is an extraordinary story of a scam perpetrated on a public grieving after the traumatic losses of their loved ones in a world war.

Assynt Foundation. Suileag Bothy on Glencanisp Estate is looked after by the Mountain Bothies Association (MBA).

The Daily Record in its never-ending pursuit of ‘children’ stabbed to death, for who knows how many times now front pages an image of a world that on the facts is disappearing. From&nbs…

An in-person workshop about digital storytelling, at the Scottish Storytelling Centre

Every week, I connect today's headlines to the history they never taught us. For the people doing the work of staying informed.

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