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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.

The Queen has added her signature to the Bill, marking the moment that it became part of the legislation in force in Scotland.

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).