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A summing up of road delays and closures due to road and building/utility works, cruise visits and events - for the week starting Monday 21 April 2025. 

Orkney Islands Council has made the above-named Order under section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to ensure the safety of site personnel and road users while cable duct is installed for a new substation.

Orkney Islands Council has made the above-named Order under section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to ensure the safety of site personnel and road users while general carriageway repairs and maintenance are carried out.

Notice is hereby given that Orkney Islands Council has made an order in terms of section 62 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 to the effect that, in connection with Norwegian Constitution Day, the roads referred to in the schedule below will be closed and parking will not be permitted on Saturday 17 May 2025 between 11.30am and 1.30pm. Emergency service vehicles are exempt from the prohibition.

Details of our waste and recycling arrangements over the upcoming Easter break and Easter Monday public holiday (21 April). 

Scotland’s new national suicide prevention campaign goes live today (16 April 2025). Bold, unflinching, and deeply personal, it’s been entirely co-produced by people with lived and living experience of suicide. 

Ground investigation works are due to get underway on the site of Orkney Islands Council’s proposed Scapa Deep Water Quay at Deepdale in Holm this month, with marine based site investigation works to follow in June. 

St Magnus Cathedral has long been a place where people remember and pay tribute to those who gave their lives during both World Wars – and no memorial is more poignant that that of HMS Royal Oak. 

A summing up of road delays and closures due to road and building/utility works, cruise visits and events - for the week starting Monday 14 April 2025. 

On 20 March 2025, Orkney Islands Council made the above-named order under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.