window.dotcom = window.dotcom || { cmd: [] }; window.dotcom.ads = window.dotcom.ads || { resolves: {enabled: [], getAdTag: []}, enabled: () => new Promise(r => window.dotcom.ads.resolves.enabled.push(r)), getAdTag: () => new Promise(r => window.dotcom.ads.resolves.getAdTag.push(r)) }; setTimeout(() => { if(window.dotcom.ads.resolves){ window.dotcom.ads.resolves.enabled.forEach(r => r(false)); window.dotcom.ads.resolves.getAdTag.forEach(r => r("")); window.dotcom.ads.enabled = () => new Promise(r => r(false)); window.dotcom.ads.getAdTag = () => new Promise(r => r("")); console.error("NGAS load timeout"); } }, 5000)
Skip to content

Man dies after falling from cliffs in Orkney

Rob Flett Marwick Head in BirsayRob Flett
Emergency services were called out in Birsay

A man has died after falling from cliffs in Orkney.

Emergency services - including a Coastguard helicopter, the Stromness lifeboat and police - were called out at about 23:00 on Sunday after reports of a missing person in Birsay.

Police said a body was recovered from the water at about 01:50 on Monday.

Formal identification is yet to take place. The death is not being treated as suspicious.