In this week’s edition of The Orcadian

This week’s paper is available from all the usual outlets and also online here.

The front page of the paper features:

• Tributes are paid to celebrated composer and former master of the Queen’s Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who passed away this week.

• The needs of island communities should be considered in all government legislation, according to a government report published this week.

• Funding for Orkney Island Council’s mobile library service is to be cut by £25,000.

Also inside this week’s paper:

• A budding politician from Orkney is named as MSYP of the year

• A visiting heart screening team are “bowled over” by their reception in the county

• A young woman from Orphir, who was diagnosed with cancer six years ago, sets out to give back to the charities which have helped her.

• A full round-up of the county’s sports, farming and maritime news from the last week.