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A look at road closures and delays for road works, events and cruise - for week starting Monday 10 June 2024.

A word from Arelene Montgomery who manages Crossroads Care Orkney, as Care Week gets underway.

Pride Month offers a chance for workplaces to engage with, and increase understanding of, the LGBTQ+ community and promote inclusion. 

Julie Muir’s appointment as Headteacher of Westray Junior High School will see the Sanday lass returning to her North Isles roots! 

Accounts for the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024

For the period from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024

A pupil from North Walls Community School is set to raise a laugh on the national stage this week (June 6) after qualifying for the final of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ (RCSLT) VoiceBox joke competition. 

Council Convener Graham Bevan says Orkney’s junior inter-county athletes and coaches should be “incredibly proud of a sensational sporting performance” at the weekend, which saw the local team lift the Stuart Cup to the delight of the Orkney public. 

Elected members at today’s Development and Infrastructure Committee have supported recommendations that will see a programme of works carried out to develop a Final Business Case for a ferry replacement programme for Orkney.

The Orkney Community Learning and Development Partnership are encouraging folk to respond to a questionnaire to help shape their three-year plan around the services you would like them to prioritise.