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Fares on the internal ferry routes serving Orkney are to rise by 8.7% this year in line with the rate set by Transport Scotland for subsidised external ferry services. 

A summing up of road delays and closures, for the week starting Monday 4 March 2024.

Orkney Islands Council is co-hosting a special pop-up event at Kirkwall Library on 13 and 14 March, to help folk who receive concessionary ferry travel collect their new electronic vouchers.

Orkney Islands Council’s Transportation Service is asking residents in South Ronaldsay to suggest the best days and times for an on-demand door-to-door community transport service in the area.

Did you know - boarding a public bus in Orkney feeds a special pot of funding, helping support transport improvements including community transport in some of our most fragile communities.

Free Child Impact Assessment training for people who support children and young people in Orkney affected by a family member caught up in the justice system is being launched in the county next month (March). 

Nymeria Drayak and Iain Pretswell – both from South Ronaldsay – have started office as Orkney’s two Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament.

Orkney Islands Council has today (27 February) said it will freeze Council Tax in 2024/25 – as long as the Scottish Government in return can come good on an additional funding offer.

The offer – an expected additional £1.1m for Orkney – is dependent on the UK Government passing additional Barnett funding to the Scottish Government at their budget setting on 6 March.

 A series of pop-up ‘bubble teas’ devised by young people to help tackle youth loneliness is off to a strong start, with over 50 young people attending the first event in Firth in January and more events in the pipeline.

Orkney’s Parasport Festival returned on Friday 23 February, bringing huge smiles to peedie faces.