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Scapa Flow Museum appears on BBC1 in Who Do You Think You Are
Scapa Flow Museum has made an appearance in BBC1 series Who Do You Think You Are, in an epsiode featuring actor Ralf Little.
01 July 2022
Stromness Academy students learn traditional drystone sheep dyke restoration methods
A group of students from Stromness Academy volunteered for a unique opportunity to help repair and rebuild damaged sections of a 13-mile drystone sheep dyke on North Ronaldsay recently.
Working alongside two sheep wardens, eight young people joined teacher Jane Ellison and school janitor, Mark Waters in learning to replicate traditional methods of building and restoration work on part of the wall, which is there to keep the seaweed eating sheep on the island’s beaches.
29 June 2022
Council trials fully funded late night bus services for Friday and Saturday evenings
New late night bus services leaving Kirkwall and serving East Mainland, West Mainland and Kirkwall & Orphir are being trialled by the Council until March 2023.
28 June 2022
Public Inspection Notice - Orkney Integration Joint Board Accounts
For the period from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022
Notice is hereby given under Regulation 9 (1) of the Local Authority Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2014 that:
28 June 2022
“Breaking the news of a fatal road crash to a loved one is worse than attending the incident”
Knocking on a door, knowing that the news you are about to share is going to shatter lives, has been a reality on too many occasions for former police officer and recently re-elected Orkney Councillor, David Dawson.
Besides having investigated fatal road crashes in his earlier career, for the last ten years of his police service, he worked as a family liaison officer, with cases ranging from air crashes, drugs deaths, murder and fatal road crashes - not all in Orkney he points out.
27 June 2022