Orkney

About 2,000 athletes are expected as it hosts the week-long event for the first time.

If it performs well over the coming weeks it could start carrying passengers later this summer.

At least 29 jobs have been cut at the Flotta site - a key piece of North Sea oil infrastructure.

It is part of a permanent exhibition to celebrate the role of the Vikings in the area's history.

Three generations of the Hourston family play in Papa Westray's first competitive football match.

The original remains of the Papa Westray Great Auk have been scanned and cast in bronze.

A mass eradication of the non-native mammals is believed to have helped the wading bird population recover.