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A Meet the Buyer event is due to take place in Orkney later this month for contractors with an interest in contract opportunities arising from the Quanterness six-turbine wind farm project and a similar proposed project in Faray. 

An unannounced visit by the Care Inspectorate to St Rognvalds Care Home has found management oversight has improved and staff are motivated and embracing change needed to improve care, according to a report published today.

Members of the public are warmly invited to attend a community remembrance event on 8 May marking 80 years since VE Day and the end of six years’ conflict as a result of World War Two. 

A summing up of road delays and closures due to road and building/utility works, cruise visits and events - for the week starting Monday 5 May 2025.

  
The amazing array of resources for folk with vision impairment will be the focus on 3 May at Orkney Library and Archive as the team is visited by the national, ‘Share the Vision’ campaign.

The Travelling Gallery, a brightly coloured bus which has been bringing contemporary art to communities around Scotland for more than 40 years, is visiting Orkney again in early May, with the ongoing support of Orkney Islands Council and Northlink Ferries. 

The life and work of award-winning comic book artist and local creative genius Jim Baikie is on show at The Orkney Museum this summer.

Orkney is thought to be one of the first areas in Scotland to designate its roadside verges as conservation assets, cut only once per year to support local wildlife and wildflowers - including the endangered Great Yellow Bumblebee.

Our recycling facility at St Margarets Hope site will be closed until further notice, until we can clear up the site which at present - due to the bruck dumped there recently - is a health and safety risk to other site users.

Summary of road delays and closures due to works, cruise and events for the week starting 28 April 2025.