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28 May 2021
Summer opening hours to resume at Hope recycling centre
St Margaret’s Hope Recycling Centre returns to summer opening hours on Monday (May 31).
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27 May 2021
Surface dressing update for 28 May
Following completion of the surface dressing road works at Arwick Road in Evie (27 May), the Council is advising crews will move onto Georth Road in Evie tomorrow (28 May). This is a dead end minor…
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27 May 2021
A Royal encounter for the bairns at Glaitness Nursery
Bairns from the Glaitness Nursery in Kirkwall enchanted Orkney’s Royal visitors - the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - during a chance encounter on Tuesday.
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27 May 2021
Cathedral closed to public for St Magnus International Festival filming
Orkney Islands Council is advising St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall will be closed to the public from 7 – 10 June (inclusive) to allow filming and recording for this year’s St Magnus International…
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27 May 2021
Deadline approaching for comments on ‘Orkney’s Community Wind Farm Project - Hoy’
The deadline date for submission of comments to the Scottish Government on proposed plans for a six turbine, council-owned wind farm at Wee Fea in Lyness is fast approaching.
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27 May 2021
Pupils plot future Scapa Flow Museum education space
A Museum charting how the remote island of Hoy in Orkney became the hub of the UK’s largest Naval base in WWI and II is working with local school children to fire the imagination of young people who…
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26 May 2021
Surface dressing update for 27 May
Following completion of the surface dressing road works at Puldrite Road in Rendall today (26 May), the Council is advising crews will move onto Arwick Road in Evie tomorrow (27 May). This is a dead…
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26 May 2021
Tall Ship Royalist to call
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are not the only Royalty expected to visit Orkney this week.
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26 May 2021
Recycling disruption 26 May - Birsay and Sandwick
Orkney Islands Council is advising due to a mechanical issue there will be delays this afternoon on Recycling Route 11 – Sandwick and Birsay.
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26 May 2021
Warm welcome for The Duke and Duchess
The visit to Orkney by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has been warmly welcomed by the county’s Lord Lieutenant and the Leader of Orkney Islands Council.
