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On 11 November 2018, the public is invited to gather on Scapa beach for an informal, nationwide gesture of remembrance for the men and women who left their home shores during the First World War.

A programme of events in Orkney to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War has been announced.

The HMS Royal Oak Roll of Honour has gone back on display at St Magnus Cathedral after conservation work to repair damage to the book.

Orkney Islands Council is advising the public there will be widespread disruption and outages to IT and telephone systems this weekend across all Council offices and facilities, as work to install vital new equipment at the core of the OIC network takes place.

Orkney Islands Council has launched a survey into the county’s recycling provision for householders.

Orkney Islands Council is relaunching the Abattoir Challenge Fund.

Local people are being asked to keep an eye out for disadvantage in all its guises this Challenge Poverty week.

Next Saturday (13 October) sees the opening of the first autumn/winter 2018 exhibition at the Orkney Museum, Tankerness House, Broad Street, Kirkwall.

The first phase of work to make safe headstones found to be in a dangerous condition has been completed at four kirkyards in Orkney.

Isles residents with more than one car can now have two vehicles linked to books of travel tickets issued by Orkney Ferries.