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A scheme aimed at helping local artists and crafts people take their creative development and ideas to the next level is open again for applications, following renewed backing from Creative Scotland.

Orkney Islands Council is asking Orkney households to take it all the way when it comes to putting their bins out.

The Council is seeking feedback on plans to charge for the use of community school kitchens for a number of events.

Visit our Waste team at the Shows this year for a chance to win a 'Green Johanna' hot composter and food waste digester.

The Council is reminding people in Westray that the refuse collection postponed on Tuesday will be taking place tomorrow (Thursday 26 July) instead.

Surface dressing work on the county's roads has finished for 2018.

The final major piece of work to ready the buildings at the Scapa Flow Museum for redevelopment will get underway this week.

Due to mechanical issues the refuse collection in Westray is being postponed.

Surface dressing is due to take place on Monday 23 July in Holm, on the Greenwall Road and then the Woodstock Road.

The offices currently used by NHS Orkney are to provide a base for Voluntary Action Orkney following the opening of the new hospital in Kirkwall.