Given Dounby Show day is a local holiday, it means that Hatston, Bossack and Garson Household and Waste Recycling Centres and the St Margaret’s Hope and Cursiter Recycling Centres will be closed on Thursday 11 August.

They will be open as normal on Friday 12 August.  Kerbside collections will be carried out as normal.

The Cathedral welcomed the 100,000^th person since the new vestibule was opened on 1 April earlier this year.

Jacqueline Noguera is from the Philippines, and she is one of the crew members off the cruise ship MSC Poesia, which is visiting Orkney today, 28 July.

Visitor Services Assistant Ross Flett was on hand to present Jacqueline with a small bag of Orkney goodies to mark the occasion.

The Council is reminding the Orkney public that evening bus services are now serving in the East Mainland, West Mainland and Kirkwall and Orphir areas on Friday and Saturday nights.

The Council’s Library team is helping pilot an initiative aimed at helping more people tap into ‘Near Me’ for their online health-related appointments, through their local library.

Orkney continues to punch above its weight when it comes to Team Scotland and the Commonwealth Games.

Local weightlifter, Ross Sinclair, has been announced as one of the Achieve Programme participants for the Birmingham 2022 Games from 28 July-8 August.

Ross, 20, is hoping to gain some weighty experience from the programme, which began in 2010 and aims to propel athletes and coaches from diverse backgrounds onto sporting success by preparing them for participation in the Commonwealth Youth Games, Commonwealth Games and other major sports events.