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19 October 2021
Support for local athletes attracts £3k boost from Stagecoach
A dedicated grant supported by sportScotland to help sportspeople in Orkney with the costs of attending competitive and training opportunities has received a £3k boost from Stagecoach.
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19 October 2021
Nordic Sea North o’ the Galt plans moving closer
Plans to get the Nordic Sea into service on the Papay to Westray route are moving closer.
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19 October 2021
First stop for new buses in Orkney
The first four brand new buses arrived in Orkney on Friday 15 October 2021.
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19 October 2021
Notice of essential web security maintenance works
The Council’s ICT team require to carry out some essential maintenance work to the network security systems on Tuesday evening (19 October).
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19 October 2021
Community projects across Orkney attract almost £450,000
Seven organisations in Orkney are to benefit from funding totalling almost £450,000 to support employment, community resilience, health and wellbeing.
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18 October 2021
Update on Ayre Mills roundabout road works - 18 October
Unfortunately, weather-related delays has meant that phase two of the resurfacing works on Ayre Mills roundabout only got underway this morning (Monday 18 October).
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18 October 2021
The lights will go on – the festive lights that is!
The Council has tasked Alfred Flett’s to start repairing and preplacing a number of the festive anchors for the catenary wires that hold the strings of lights within Kirkwall, Stromness and St…
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15 October 2021
Two OIC employees facing similar cancer journeys share their thanks for “The Hospital Adventures”
Two Orkney families have shared how their cancer journeys have been made that little bit easier thanks to a new initiative set up at the Balfour - The Hospital Adventures.
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15 October 2021
Karen picks up a special award on behalf of all school kitchen staff in Orkney
Scotland’s top school chef – Stromness Primary’s Karen Bevan - has accepted a very special award on behalf of all school kitchen staff in Orkney for their “phenomenal” frontline work throughout the…
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15 October 2021
Final decision on Orkney's Community Wind Farm Project now with the Scottish Government
The Scottish Government has called in Orkney Islands Council's planning application for a six-turbine wind farm on Faray in the North Isles.
