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A different approach to providing social care and community health services is to be developed and trialled in Orkney.

The aim is to put local communities at the heart of decision-making when it comes to working out how to deliver services that best meet local needs.

Orkney Islands Council is reminding local folk that a series of consultation events will be held in Stromness next week for local folk to come together and discuss and share ideas for the future of the town.

Work is about to begin on building a new boardwalk path at Happy Valley in Stenness.

Key documents on Orkney Islands Council's Community Wind Farm project are now available through the planning portal on the council website.

Orkney Islands Council's spring and summer road resurfacing programme for 2019 is due to get underway next week.

Sixteen local youth workers are celebrating after successfully completing a Professional Development Award in Youth Work.

Local voters wishing to secure a postal vote for the forthcoming European Parliamentary Elections are being reminded that they need to apply by 17.00 on May 8.

New arrangements for agreeing the leasing of Council properties to businesses and community groups have been a great success - with 25 properties leased out since January 2018.

A public vote opens this week to select the name for Orkney’s new pilot launch - currently under construction in Spain.

Summer public bus service timetables for Orkney are due to come into effect from Sunday May 5.