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Personal licence holders in Orkney are being reminded that they must act now to ensure that they apply to renew their personal licences by 31 May this year - or risk losing them.

Police Scotland and Orkney Islands Council are asking drivers to ‘think bus’ when leaving vehicles in St Margaret’s Hope.

Planning is underway to help a further two families from war-ravaged Syria build new lives in Orkney.

Orkney's biennial Youth Conference got underway at the Kirkwall Town Hall this morning (7 February).

The Council is to identify headstones assessed as unstable in local kirkyards to give families advanced notice that these are scheduled to be laid flat.

The North Isles Landscape Partnership Scheme (NILPS) team is now up to full strength with the appointment of three new staff members.

Orkney Islands Council is providing a further opportunity for the public to view and comment on plans to expand Cursiter Quarry in Firth.

The next stage of street improvements in Kirkwall's town centre will get underway next Wednesday (6 Feb).

Next Saturday (9 February) sees the opening of a new exhibition at the Orkney Museum, Tankerness House, Kirkwall.

A new report has revealed that 70.3% of full-time students successfully completed their studies at Highlands and Islands colleges in the 2017 to 2018 academic year.