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Following a report of alleged near miss between a vehicle and a park user on the new roadway running through Bignold Park , Orkney Islands Council is appealing to drivers using the roadway to be mindful of the safety of all users and to drive more slowly.

Orkney arts enthusiasts will be treated to a degree show of the highest calibre, when final year BA Fine Art students at Orkney College show their works in June - the first degree show to be attended by the public in three years.

Residents of Dounby are being urged to submit ideas and visions for development in their community, as part of ongoing work to create a ‘place plan’ to capture future ambitions for the village and surrounding area.

Flagstone repairs will be taking place over four days next week in central Stromness.

The Council is reminding the public there will be road closures and traffic changes in central Stromness next week in relation to the Folk Festival, starting Thursday 26 May and carrying through to Sunday evening (29 May).

Census staff have carried out more than 1 million doorstep visits in the drive to support households to complete their census, according to new figures from National Records of Scotland (NRS).

Orkney’s school cooks are continuing to serve up success, with another winner being named in a Scottish competition.

With only a weeks’ notice, head cook at Firth Primary School, Sylvia Manson, managed to create a showstopping cake design, which blew away the judges at the ASSIST FM (Facilities Management) Awards 2022 in the “outstanding culinary skills – decorated cake” section.

The theme was “road to recovery” and Sylvia explained how she came up with her design.

Community Councillors are to be elected for each of the 20 Community Council areas within Orkney.  The Community Councils, and number of members required, are as follows:

Howard and Zander McQuaid, from Stronsay, smashed both their time and fundraising target during a log pull to raise money for repair work to the community’s First Responder antenna.

They achieved five miles with a 28kg log (it gained a kilo when they left it out in the rain!) in 1 hour 31 minutes. The donations are still coming in but are over £730 – well over their £500 target.

Fellow islander, Roger Neville-Smith, accompanied the young lads on the route and managed to capture some lovely photos along the way.

Sanday School pupils smashed the ‘Swim to Ukraine’ challenge and have raised £590 through sponsorship -not bad for a school of 60 bairns!

Pupils from P1-S4 and staff from the school swam to Ukraine – thanks to the island’s swimming pool – raising money for the DEC Ukraine Appeal.

Principal Teacher, Kristen Muir, said it’s around 2,200 miles to Ukraine so they scaled the sponsored swim accordingly and counted all swimming lengths during the school and public sessions