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The life and work of award-winning comic book artist and local creative genius Jim Baikie is on show at The Orkney Museum this summer.

Orkney is thought to be one of the first areas in Scotland to designate its roadside verges as conservation assets, cut only once per year to support local wildlife and wildflowers - including the endangered Great Yellow Bumblebee.

Our recycling facility at St Margarets Hope site will be closed until further notice, until we can clear up the site which at present - due to the bruck dumped there recently - is a health and safety risk to other site users.

Summary of road delays and closures due to works, cruise and events for the week starting 28 April 2025.

From 23 June 2025, the Scottish Government is extending the concessionary digital ferry voucher scheme to young islanders aged 19 to 21, helping them save money when travelling to and from the Scottish Mainland.

A specially created ‘dress’ dedicated to the memory of a local woman, Marabel Couper, who was found guilty of witchcraft and condemned to death ‘by public strangulation and burning at Gallow Ha’, in 1624, will be unveiled soon at Orkney Library and Archive.

A summing up of road delays and closures due to road and building/utility works, cruise visits and events - for the week starting Monday 21 April 2025. 

Details of our waste and recycling arrangements over the upcoming Easter break and Easter Monday public holiday (21 April). 

Scotland’s new national suicide prevention campaign goes live today (16 April 2025). Bold, unflinching, and deeply personal, it’s been entirely co-produced by people with lived and living experience of suicide. 

Ground investigation works are due to get underway on the site of Orkney Islands Council’s proposed Scapa Deep Water Quay at Deepdale in Holm this month, with marine based site investigation works to follow in June.