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Great Western Road (South) car park will close from 6pm tonight (Tuesday 30 January) and possibly into Thursday for maintenance works.

Challenges and opportunities for local business will be in sharp focus at a special forum later this week involving private, public and third sector representatives.

A public consultation has been launched seeking local views on a strategy for housing in Orkney - which aims to see up to 1035 homes being built in Orkney over the next ten years

The strategy has been developed by Orkney's multi-agency Housing Market Partnership and sets out the priorities and actions required locally for housing across three key areas - housing supply, housing quality and access to housing.

Advice for residents who didn’t get their waste collected last week (week starting 15 January 2024) due to the ice and snow:

A summing up of road closures and delays due to road works or events - for the week starting Monday 29 January 2024.

Shapinsay Primary School have once again achieved ‘Gold’ status in sportscotland’s School Sport Awards, a national, Lottery funded initiative designed to encourage schools to continuously improve physical education (PE) and school sport opportunities.

While the rest of Orkney were enjoying the Tractor run over the festive period, three of Orkney's care homes also got in on the act. 

Orkney's Local Emergency Coordination Group has met this morning to discuss the aftermath of the recent snowfall - and the bad weather coming in again on Sunday night.

Orkney's Local Emergency Coordination Group has thanked the public for heeding travel warnings in Orkney last night - but advised drivers that they should 'think twice' about road journeys over the coming days.

The Hope Community School is seeking help to eliminate out-of-hours destructive behaviour in its grounds, after shards of broken glass were left in the playground and the school's polytunnel vandalised recently.