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A statutory meeting of the full council is due to go ahead on Wednesday to appoint the convener, vice-convener and committee chairmen from the recently elected councillors.
Members will decide on who they wish to see in charge of the four council committees — development and infrastructure, planning, education, leisure and housing and monitoring an [...]
Continue Reading →Orkney’s pre-school activity clubs and classes are being asked to show they are “class acts” by entering the UK’s biggest parenting awards.
The competition is open to all activity classes for under fives including music classes, baby yoga and massage, exercise, swimming, singing and signing.
Last year over a million mums cast their votes as [...]
Continue Reading →Tickets for the highly anticipated 30th Orkney Folk Festival go on sale today, Saturday.
The general release of festival tickets follows three weeks of advance sales to festival patrons, which has seen a number of events for the landmark festival sell out before the main sales open.
Festival spokesman Craig Corse said: “Ticket sales [...]
Continue Reading →Loganair’s locally-based Islander aircraft look set to be used to supply back-up support to the air ambulance service.
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that the planes could once again be used to transport “non-emergency” patients from the outer isles into Kirkwall.
The initiative is the result of an agreement between the Scottish Ambulance Service [...]
Continue Reading →The annual Celebrating Scapa Flow weekend kicks off today, Friday.
Events begin today at the St Magnus Centre in Kirkwall, with an evening of lectures introduced and chaired by Julian Branscombe of the Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership.
On Saturday, a day of activities will take place in Hoy, starting with a walk to Wee Fea.
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Continue Reading →Police are appealing for information after heating oil was removed from a house in Longhope, Hoy, and a purse was taken from a handbag in licensed premises in Kirkwall.
The heating oil is thought to have been taken between 11pm on Sunday, and 4am on Monday, and the handbag went missing on Sunday evening.
Anyone [...]
Continue Reading →A talk aimed at increasing awareness of and supporting people with a type of visual impairment takes place in Kirkwall this afternoon.
The Macular Disease Society (MDS) has organised the talk entitled “Living with Macular Degeneration”, where two representatives will speak about the condition and support available.
Valerie Wares lived in Orkney for 23 years [...]
Continue Reading →An open meeting is due to go ahead on North Ronaldsay on Friday at 7pm, in the community centre, to discuss the island’s sustainability.
It’s an opportunity for the community to talk about “ambitions” for boosting North Ronaldsay’s sustainability, as well the development trust’s development plan for the island which is being finalised with help from Orkney Islands [...]
Continue Reading →A man has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for his part in a knife-point robbery.
William Dennis Mills, 21, previously admitted, while acting along with another, assaulting a man at a Kirkwall address, threatening him with violence, holding knives against his face and throat to his injury, and robbing him [...]
Continue Reading →Rev Don Currie is to take over as the new chairman of the Orkney Alcohol and Drugs Partnership.
Rev Currie, representing the churches of Orkney, was voted in by his colleagues as chairman for the next two years. He takes over from retired councillor, Roderick McLeod, who has been in the role since April, 2011.
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Continue Reading →Loganair has announced the appointment of Philip Preston as its new chief operating officer.
Mr Preston, who was formerly managing director of CalMac Ferries until late 2011, joins Loganair in a role which will oversee the airline’s flight crew, cabin crew, engineering and ground service delivery functions.
Mr Preston takes over from Jonathan Hinkles, who [...]
Continue Reading →Northern Isles MSPs Liam McArthur and Tavish Scott have met representatives from Serco Ltd — the preferred bidder to provide the lifeline Northern Isles ferry service over the next six years.
Following the meeting, Mr McArthur and Mr Scott have written to the transport minister seeking assurances about the future of freight services. This is in light of growing [...]
Continue Reading →Following the release of Ofgem’s Project TransmiT report into transmission charging last week, Orkney MSP Liam McArthur has expressed his frustration with the findings.
He said many people in the Northern Isles had hoped the report would seriously consider the negative impact excessive transmission charges are having on the renewables industry in the islands, and [...]
Continue Reading →More than £6 million is to be spent in Orkney on increasing the supply of affordable housing, creating jobs and boosting the local economy, it was confirmed today.
All Scotland’s 32 councils, including Orkney, will receive a share of almost £582 million in subsidy over the next three years from part of the Affordable Housing [...]
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