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For the period from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024

An Election is to be held for a Member of Parliament to serve the Orkney & Shetland Constituency.

Nomination papers can be obtained from the office of the Returning Officer, Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY, during the times stated below.

Orkney Islands Council has made the above-named Order under section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to ensure the safety of the public and road users during the building of two properties.

Orkney Islands Council has made the above-named Order under section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to ensure the safety of site personnel and road users while carriageway maintenance works are carried out.

I, Oliver David Reid, Returning Officer for the Election of Councillors to Orkney Islands Council, to be held on Thursday 28 March 2024, hereby give Notice that the following names and addresses of appointed election agents and the addresses of the offices or places of such election agents to which all claims, notices, legal process, and other documents addressed to them may be sent, have respectively been declared in writing to me as follows

A By-Election is to be held for the return of a Councillor for the Stromness and South Isles Ward of Orkney Islands Council

An outline of changes to the normal opening hours at the Council's Waste Management Sites over the festive period, for commercial customers and householders.

Unfortunately, due to the weather, there will be no refuse collection on Hoy tomorrow.

Batten down the hatches and tie down the trampolines folks!

Orkney Islands Area - Community Council Election 2023

The number of votes cast for each candidate in the was as follows