In this week’s edition of The Orcadian

This week’s paper is now available from all the usual outlets and online, here.

This week’s front page of the paper features a story about a spate of recent thefts from local charity shops and what the shop owners and doing to fight back.

Also in this week’s newspaper:

• Members of a third union representing workers on Orkney Ferries vessels have voted for industrial action in a dispute with the company over pay.

• Orkney books go under the hammer — two collections of old and rare Orkney books are set to go on sale at an auction in Edinburgh later this month

• A ring with great sentimental value, which was lost off the coast of a Spanish island almost 30 years ago by an American Navy airman has been reunited with its owner thanks to a Shetland man who lives in Kirkwall.

For all these stories, plus round-ups of all the county’s top news, from farming to entertainment and everything in between, pick up a copy of today’s edition of The Orcadian.