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Local people are being asked to keep an eye out for disadvantage in all its guises this Challenge Poverty week.

Next Saturday (13 October) sees the opening of the first autumn/winter 2018 exhibition at the Orkney Museum, Tankerness House, Broad Street, Kirkwall.

The first phase of work to make safe headstones found to be in a dangerous condition has been completed at four kirkyards in Orkney.

Isles residents with more than one car can now have two vehicles linked to books of travel tickets issued by Orkney Ferries.

Public views are being sought on Orkney Islands Council's strategy for bringing empty homes back into use.

The Council's Orkney Library and Archive team have been in the news again - this time for their tweet about a centuries-old item in their care which documents the selling of a piece of land for 'five crowns/krona and two ky' (cattle) in 1402.

Two schools in Orkney have been recognised this week with a prestigious national award from SportScotland for innovation and achievement in delivering physical education and extra-curricular sport.

Two projects have been awarded funding from the local LEADER fund - with time is running out for other projects looking to secure support from the fund.

Parking is free once again from October 1 for the first hour at a number of town centre car parks in Orkney.

Tackling plastic pollution will be top of the list of topics taken to the public this Recycling Week by the Council’s waste team.