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12 December 2024
Additional passenger ferry sailings
An additional week-day passenger service will operate between Sanday, Stronsay, Eday and Kirkwall during the annual winter refit timetable.
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12 December 2024
Waste Management Sites - Festive Period Closures
A guide to waste and recycling centre opening hours over the 2024-25 festive period.
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10 December 2024
Road Safety Forum urges parents to check child car seats
The Orkney Road Safety Forum is urging parents and carers of children to check if they are using their child car seats correctly.
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9 December 2024
“Community-spirited” project gets off the ground with help from Orkney Builders and Orkney Men’s Shed
Taking a trip down memory lane, reusing past skills and learning new ones has been made possible thanks to a new initiative within a number of Orkney’s care homes.
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9 December 2024
OIC alerts local food operators and households to growing allergy product recall
The Council’s Environmental Health Services Team is reaching out to food business operators and households advising of a growing allergen alert product recall.
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9 December 2024
Join the 7,000 local folk using MyOrkney and mygovscot to request it, report it and pay it
Local people are being urged to sign up for a mygovscot account for a quicker and easier way to report issues and request services from Orkney Islands Council.
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6 December 2024
Plans for Stromness Community Centre to be run by community leap forward
Long held aspirations by the Stromness Community Development Trust to take over the Stromness Community Centre on behalf of the town’s residents have leapt ahead in recent weeks – thanks to a package…
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6 December 2024
Over £20k awarded for new research of the Sanday Wreck to help further reveal its secrets
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has awarded £21,000 to Wessex Archaeology and Dendrochronicle to carry out further research of the Sanday Wreck, an intact section of shipwreck timbers uncovered…
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6 December 2024
Orkney Islands Council Launches Budget Survey
A survey is being launched today to gather local views on potential changes to the services provided by Orkney Islands Council - as the local authority begins to plan for its budget setting process…
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6 December 2024
Community urged to input into planning survey
Local folk who’ve interacted with the Council’s Development Management - or planning - team in the last year are being encouraged to feed their views about their experience into a national survey.
