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Orkney Islands Council's spring and summer road resurfacing programme for 2019 is due to get underway next week.

Sixteen local youth workers are celebrating after successfully completing a Professional Development Award in Youth Work.

Local voters wishing to secure a postal vote for the forthcoming European Parliamentary Elections are being reminded that they need to apply by 17.00 on May 8.

New arrangements for agreeing the leasing of Council properties to businesses and community groups have been a great success - with 25 properties leased out since January 2018.

A public vote opens this week to select the name for Orkney’s new pilot launch - currently under construction in Spain.

Summer public bus service timetables for Orkney are due to come into effect from Sunday May 5.

A series of consultation events will be held in Stromness next month for local folk to come together and discuss and share ideas for the future of Stromness.

A programme of events has been announced marking 100 years since the scuttling of the German High Seas fleet in Scapa Flow.

Orkney Islands Council is to investigate an additional two sites for potential community wind farms in the county - to add to the project already under investigation on Hoy. 

The Council has announced where grounds maintenance work will be focused over the months ahead.