Archive News

Visit our Waste team at the Shows this year for a chance to win a 'Green Johanna' hot composter and food waste digester.

The Council is reminding people in Westray that the refuse collection postponed on Tuesday will be taking place tomorrow (Thursday 26 July) instead.

Surface dressing work on the county's roads has finished for 2018.

The final major piece of work to ready the buildings at the Scapa Flow Museum for redevelopment will get underway this week.

Due to mechanical issues the refuse collection in Westray is being postponed.

Surface dressing is due to take place on Monday 23 July in Holm, on the Greenwall Road and then the Woodstock Road.

The offices currently used by NHS Orkney are to provide a base for Voluntary Action Orkney following the opening of the new hospital in Kirkwall.

Surface dressing work in Hoy has been completed today (Thursday 19 July).

The multi-agency Orkney Local Emergency Co-ordinating Group (OLECG) met today (Thursday 19 July) in response to the grounding of the freight vessel MV Priscilla on a skerry in the Pentland Firth.

Surface dressing is due to take place on Thursday and Friday this week (19 and 20 July) on a section of the B9047 (the main Moaness - Lyness - Longhope road) from the Hoy Hotel to just past the School (Hoy and North Walls Community School).

Surface dressing is set to continue tomorrow (Wednesday 18 July) on the B9047 (the main Moaness - Lyness - Longhope road) on a 1km section either side of Lyrawa Bay in North Hoy.

Surface dressing will take place in Hoy this week, with full road closures in place while work is carried out. 

Local emergency services are assisting this years' campaign urging local people to get their children's car seats checked in light of startling national and local statistics. 

No surface dressing is planned for Friday or Monday (13 and 16 July).

The Council is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced consultant to assess the impact of a major redevelopment of the Scapa Flow Museum at Lyness in Hoy.

Surface dressing is planned for tomorrow (Thursday 12 July) on the B9067 (the Pierowall to Kirbest road) between Gairy and the junction at Tufter (known locally as ‘Tifter’).

Surface dressing will start in Westray tomorrow, Wednesday 11 July, on the main Pierowall to Rapness road.

There will be no surface dressing on Tuesday 10 July as the team prepare to carry out work in Westray.

We will provide a further update tomorrow.

Orkney will host the 2023 Island Games after all 24 member islands of the International Island Games Association (IIGA) voted unanimously to award the event to the county.

Experienced people with a wide range of skills in the UK energy sector are invited to apply to the post of Chair of the new Orkney Research and Innovation Campus (ORIC).

The Islands Bill has received Royal Assent and become an Act of the Scottish Parliament.

Surface dressing continues tomorrow (Saturday 7 July) in Holm, on the road from Hurtiso to Warthill, where short signed diversions will be in place.

A century of tradition has come to an end inside Kirkwall’s St Magnus Cathedral with the cathedral clock having been wound by hand for the very last time (Thursday 5 July).

Surface dressing will begin tomorrow (Friday 6 July) in South Ronaldsay, on a small side road around half a mile from St Margaret’s Hope.

A consultation event is being held this Tuesday (10 July) to gather views on the Scottish Government's consultation on the 'Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing’ (EESSH) post 2020.

Surface dressing will continue on Thursday 5 July in South Ronaldsay, on two stretches of the road from St Margaret’s Hope to Hoxa.

There has been a change to the surface dressing work planned for today.

Surface dressing takes place on Wednesday 4 July in Holm, on the road from Hurtiso Farm to Warthill. Short signed diversions will be in place.

Surface dressing is set to take place on Tuesday 3 July on two sections of the Tankerness Hall. The road will be closed in both directions while the work is carried out, with short signed diversions in place.