In this week’s edition of The Orcadian

This week’s edition of the paper is now available from all the usual outlets and online, here.

This week’s front page features stories on:

• Orkney Islands Councillors hear figures detailing how nine people have died and 20 have been seriously injured in accidents on Orkney’s roads in the last six years.

• Sixteen OIC councillors have backed a fellow councillor’s Scottish Parliamentary bid.

Also inside:

• The Marine Accident Investigation Branch has launched an investigation into the loss of a fisherman off Orkney on Monday.

• Orkney’s candidates standing for Scottish Parliamentary discuss public services and health.

• An investigation report into the Cemfjord, which capsized in the Pentland Firth, says the vessel should have sought shelter.

For these stories plus round-ups of all the week’s farming, marine, entertainment and sports news pick up a paper of The Orcadian today.