Two intrepid literary explorers are hoping they won’t be ‘overdue’ when they attempt to travel 1,100 miles across the UK to visit seven libraries – including Orkney Library & Archive - in six days to promote accessible reading services. 

Kinship Care Week runs from 11-15 March 2024 and in a bid to link up fellow kinship carers – also known as family and friends’ carers - an informal afternoon of coffee, cake and chat is being held at The Storehouse Restaurant, Bridge Street Wynd, Kirkwall on Wednesday 13 March from 1pm-3pm. 

Orkney Islands Council has welcomed the announcement that the county is to receive £20m of Levelling Up funding. 

It’s World Book Day on Thursday 7 March and Orkney’s schools will be welcoming all manner of characters through their doors to celebrate. 

An appeal for stories, letters and artefacts from Italian Chapel Prisoners of War has been launched by the committee who look after the Lamb Holm place of worship, in the leadup to 80 years since the camps fell silent.