Record-breaking swimming duo – Eve Wood and Alfie Price – have struck gold at the recent Scottish National Age Group Championships (SNAGS) in Aberdeen. 

Thanks to your help in recent times, we have been able to find private rented homes for a number of key worker posts both for here at the Council and for our colleagues at NHS Orkney. 

Orkney Islands Council is reminding the public of the planned road closure on the Brodgar Road starting next week, with a significant detour for drivers and impacts on the 8S and X1 public bus services.

Do you know how to navigate your way through a map, identify an array of local birds and wildflowers, or how about learning to restore and upholster a piece of furniture? 

Following improvement works, the Point of Ness campsite in Stromness has now reopened for the season. 

Orkney Islands Council’s waste team has now removed tetra pak skips from its recycling centres. This means householders should now put all ‘tetra pak’ style containers in their grey bins with other household refuse.

The links between Orkney and Norway will be further strengthened when representatives from the Council and the Orkney Norway Friendship Association attend a number of anniversary events in May to mark 750 years since the first Norwegian laws were published. 

“Dizzy” with excitement is how the Council’s Karl and Andrew Kemp are feeling at the prospect of the upcoming Eurovision competition in Sweden – after they managed to secure VIP live grand final tickets!

A summing up of road works and closures underway or soon to start in the county - for the week starting Monday 15 April 2024.

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 building works at Highland Park Distillery.