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Watch: 'Renewing our vows on a wild swim tour'

Comedy couple Julie Wilson Nimmo and Greg Hemphill have taken the plunge and renewed their vows - fresh from a dip in Orkney's freezing waters.

The pair marked 25 years of marriage at a chapel built by Italian prisoners of war.

"Just as the chapel was lovingly crafted, you have built a life together," Rev Chris Wallace, officiating the service, tells them.

Balamory's Wilson Nimmo and Still Game's Hemphill were touring Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides for a new series of Jules and Greg's Wild Swim.

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BBC political correspondent Phil Sim in a black suite and white shirt in the lobby of the Scottish Parliament.

What just happened with the Scottish Budget?

Scotland Politics

Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team battling in the dark through deep snow with yellow jackets on and head torches.

Watch: Mountain team battle deep snow during simultaneous rescues

Colin Firth on set portraying Dr Jim Swire. He wears a black suit and overcoat. He walks infront of a mocked up scene of a plane crash. A police officer can be seen surveying the scene to the left, while two crew members stand to the right with a camera and a boom microphone.

Listen: Lockerbie campaigner Jim Swire 'relieved' by Colin Firth portrayal

BBC weather presenter Calum MacColl in front of a weather map showing rain and snow.

Watch the latest weather warning forecast for Scotland

A darkened nighttime image with a rescuer wearing a yellow-hooded jacket while snow pelts in the background

Watch: Snow-battered rescuers save three on Scottish hilltop

Male DJ dances while on the decks

'Sober' club night where meditation sets the vibes

Glasgow & West Scotland

Weather presenter Judith Ralston stand in front of a Scotland weather map showing widespread yellow snow warning.

Watch the ice and snow warning forecast for Scotland

Two men wearing black waterproof jackets stand in the rain on Edinburgh's Princes St as its Festive lights glow in the background. The man on the left wears a white hat under his hood, which is covered in water droplets, and a black and grey scarf. The second man has glasses and a black scarf.

Watch: 'We're so disappointed' - tourists react to cancelled Hogmanay

Edinburgh, Fife & East

Gillian Smart in a black and white polka dot dress standing in front of an image of the Edinburgh skyline with fireworks overhead.

Gale-force winds and flooding in Hogmanay forecast

Weather presenter Gillian Smart wears a purple dress and stands in front of a green screen showing heavy rain forecast across much of Scotland at 3pm on New Year's Eve.

Weather forecast as yellow warning issued in lead-up to Hogmanay

Former prisoner Lee Jack, wearing a black coat, smiles while looking at the camera - he's standing behind a cafe counter with cakes and biscuits in glass jars

The cafe helping prisoners escape a life of crime

Tayside & Central Scotland

Group of around 30 people in front of a snow house with someone dressed as Santa on the roof.

The Glaswegian who spends Christmas in Antarctica

Teenage boy smiling at camera, sitting on grey sofa, with two prosthetic legs below his knee, pair of crutches resting next to him, decorated Christmas tree in the corner.

Teenager adapting to life with prosthetic legs

A young girl wearing a checked hat and coat, smiles as she looks at a department store Santa in 1967

Children tell Santa what they want for Christmas in 1967

Mugshot of Luke Ford, who has chin-lenght blonde hair and a beard standing against a white wall wearing a black t-shirt.

What is stealthing? Rapist jailed in Scotland's first conviction

BBC weather presenter Gillian Smart in front of a weather map of the UK.

Watch the Christmas weather forecast for Scotland

Man dressed in Santa Grinch costume being arrested by police officer in black cap and yellow hi-viz jacket.

Watch Grinch get 'arrested' after nursery break-in

Glasgow & West Scotland

Street scene with double decker bus with its roof torn off.

Bus roofless after driving through rail bridge tunnel

Glasgow & West Scotland

BBC reporter Hope Webb, wearing a blue jacket and cream-coloured scarf, stands next to police inspector Hugh Niccolls, who is wearing a green fluroescent police vest. They are both standing next to a large, grey e-bike which resembles a dirt bike parked in front of a warehouse entrance.

'We see illegal e-bikes going 40mph on pavements'

Glasgow & West Scotland

Anas Sarwar stood in the lobby of the Scottish Parliament with blurred lights behind him.

Sarwar says Labour got Waspi payout decision wrong

Scotland Politics

Two orca swimming alongside a harbour edge in grey waves

Watch a very close encounter with orcas in Lerwick

A pod of orcas has caused a stir by swimming up alongside onlookers at the Lerwick waterfront in Shetland.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Young farmer Nicola Wordie stands in a cattle shed wearing a black headband, red hoodie and black jacket.

A day in my life as a young farmer as the industry protests

Nicola Wordie from Aberdeenshire explains some of the worries young farmers are facing in uncertain times.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Charlie Elphinstone looks in a mirror to put on black bowler hat, he wears glasses, a white shirt, dark tie and suit and is surrounded by a military uniform and antique ornaments

My interest in antiques is a comfort from ear pain

The teenage antiques collector says his hobby helps take his mind off living with chronic pain.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Phone footage of a skate surfacing out of grey waves to a rigid inflatable boat.ttack the side of a inflatable

Watch the moment a skate attacks a fisherman's boat off Shetland

RNLI technician Paul Hutchison was out at sea at Muckle Roe when the large fish began to ram his boat.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Pudsey the bear with a colourful polkadot bandage over one eye standing with three children in front of a small blue and white plane on the Fair Isle landing strip.

Pudsey flies in to meet children on Fair Isle

Pudsey Bear has made a special visit to one of the most remote island communities in Scotland.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Otter in water in Shetland

️The orphaned otter that is now part of the family

A man's bond with orphaned otter becomes a movie hit️.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Oyster farmer Winston Brown eating an oyster from its shell in white oyster packing plant room.

Shetland oysters back on the market after 130 years

A family-run croft in Shetland has made history by exporting oysters for what is thought to be the first time in more than130 years.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Jim McColl wears a tweed cap and green jacket and jumper with a checked shirt. He stands in front of a Beechgrove Gardens sign.

Watch: 40 years of Jim McColl on Beechgrove Garden

Former Beechgrove Garden presenter and "Scottish national treasure" Jim McColl has died aged 89.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Emma Wassell, wearing a Scotland rugby hoodie, smiling at the camera

'I've had difficult moments but my rugby family was always there'

Scotland rugby internationalist Emma Wassell has told how her "family" of teammates cared for her through tumour surgery months after her mother died.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Wendy says she lost consciousness twice, vomited and asked for the procedure to be stopped

Hysteroscopy felt like insides were being 'clawed'

Wendy McLean took over-the-counter pain killers before the procedure at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Primary class

Meet the primary school class who are all boys

A primary school on Orkney is starting its new P1 class with and intake of only boys.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Explosion during rocket launch test

Moment rocket engine explodes in Shetland

No-one was injured in the explosion and the launch pad is "saved and is secured".

NE, Orkney & Shetland

The prison museum opened in 2016, after the prison closed in 2013.

How would you react to prison museum's 'dark tourism'?

Visitors have been filmed for the project to track their reaction to the museum's exhibits.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Bagpiper and ponies

Swiss bagpiper serenades Shetland ponies

An island driver got a surprise when she came across a bagpiper playing to an attentive audience of Shetland ponies.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

The stranding is thought to be the largest UK stranding since 1927

Experts arrive to examine Orkney stranded whales

Stranding expert Emma Neave-Webb said there would be some post-mortem examinations.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Whales on beach

Whales die in major stranding on Orkney beach

Dozens of whales have died on a beach in Orkney in what could be the biggest Scottish mass strandings for decades.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Man sits on a chair in a flooded street

Man goes fishing in flooded street

Heavy rain causes flooding in north east Scotland after around one month's rain fell in 24 hours.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Christine Glaser

'The Viking gene survey helped find my cancer'

A Shetland woman has been telling how a search for a gene variant alerted her to her breast cancer diagnosis.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

Allan Fraser

How a kettle could help keep older people safe

AI linked to everyday items could alert family members if elderly relatives have diverted from their normal morning routine.

NE, Orkney & Shetland

MV Alfred

Watch the moment ferry grounds after captain 'falls asleep'

A total of 41 people were injured when the MV Alfred grounded on Swona on 5 July 2022.

NE, Orkney & Shetland