It was initially called the Orkney Herald, and Weekly Advertiser and Gazette for the Orkney & Zetland Islands from 1860, and then the Orkney Herald, and Weekly Advertiser and Gazette for the Northern Counties from 3 January 1877 to 24 July 1940.
It continued as the Orkney Herald until it closed on 10 January 1961.
[3] The poet George Mackay Brown wrote for the Orkney Herald from 1944 into the mid-1950s.
[4] The poet Robert Rendall wrote for the paper around the same time.
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