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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.

A summing up of road works and other delays or closures underway or soon to start in the county - for week starting Monday 22 January 2024.

Orkney Islands Council Convener Graham Bevan has paid tribute to former Stromness Councillor John Flett Brown, who passed away last week.