Two local charities  - Orkney Blide Trust and The Youth Café - are to benefit from an equal share of £2,500 following the successful auction of more than 100 “hats for George”.

Orkney Library & Archive and the George Mackay Brown Fellowship auctioned off 111 hats which were knitted and donated from around the world as part of the celebration events for the centenary of Orcadian poet and writer George Mackay Brown who would have celebrated his 100^th birthday on 17 October 2021.

This Saturday 6 November, sees the opening of a new exhibition at The Orkney Museum, Kirkwall - “An Unappropriated World”, Recent Paintings by Sylvia Hays is a stunning collection of paintings, fed by the Orkney landscape in all its moods.

Calling all Orkney residents – do you want to be involved in shaping your community’s future?

The LEADER Local Action Group, the council and Voluntary Action Orkney (VAO) want to hear what’s important to you about the place in which you live – whether that be development, the countryside, play areas, sports and leisure, shops and services, activities and connectivity, to name a few.

A new agreement has been reached to put skills and training at the heart of Orkney’s recovery from the pandemic.

Scapa Flow's potential as an Arctic gateway harbour is high on the agenda following an Orkney appearance at the Arctic Circle Assembly last week in Iceland.