A Royal Navy ordnance disposal unit from Faslane are travelling to Orkney to deal with a suspected magnetic mine.

The suspected World War II mine, found between Peter Skerry and the Skerries of Clestrain, is lying 100 yards offshore in shallow water. Kevin Heath, clam diving in the area, made the discovery of what is believed to be a parachute mine, dropped in Scapa Flow in 1944.

Marion Flaws of Kirkwall today, Tuesday, told Glasgow High Court how she ran from the Mumutaz restaurant after hearing a shot, fearing that everyone there would be killed.

Miss Flaws, 65, was working as a waitress at the Mumutaz restaurant with waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood when he was shot and killed on June 2, 1994.

She was giving evidence at the trial of Michael Ross, 29, who is accused of murdering Shamsudden Mahmood.

Miss Flaws told the court: "I was in the restaurant, I heard the door open and I saw a man with a mask and hood over his head coming through the door. I could not see his face, only his eyes.

"He walked up the restaurant to the table near the bar. I heard a shot. I heard the bang and went out the door. I thought he might shoot everybody so I got out as fast as I could."

It’s time to start voting again, in a bid to crown Orkney’s Natasha Groundwater Miss Scotland.

Sixteen will become 14 after today’s vote, and, ultimately, only ten will go through to the final in Glasgow’s Princes Square on May 25.

All the girls started with zero votes today, so to keep Natasha, a dental nurse, of Kirkwall, in the running call 09011 214 417 or text Scot17 to 88010.

Voting closes at 4pm.

A video of the Mumutaz murder scene from 1994 was shown to jurors at the trial of Michael Ross in Glasgow yesterday.

Ian Clingan, a civilian working with Scenes of Crime Officers in Inverness, filmed the video after arriving in the county in the early hours of the morning after the murder.

Jurors watched as Mr Clingan described the scenes unfolding on film. It showed the exterior of the restaurant surrounded by police tape while inside there were the remnants of abandoned food, a hole in the wall with blood splatters next to it above a waiters' trolley, a spent cartridge case, a pair of broken glasses on a table and a heavily blood-stained waiter's jacket. A bullet was recovered from the hole in the wall, which Mr Clingan estimated was 6-7ft above the ground.

Mr Clingan also filmed the gents' toilets that were then at the Kiln Corner.

The interior of Kirkwall’s St Magnus Cathedral features on a new set of stamps issued by the Royal Mail today, Tuesday.

The six stamp collection features some of the UK’s most striking cathedrals from across Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. St Magnus Cathedral was chosen to star on the international mail stamp (81pence) because of the beauty of its interior.

Other cathedrals featured include Lichfield, Belfast, Gloucester, St David’s and Westminster.