This week’s edition of The Orcadian — available now

This week’s edition of The Orcadian is due in shops this afternoon, despite expectations of a delay until Saturday. The online edition of the newspaper is already available to digital subscribers, here.

This week’s front page features:

• Two Orcadians make the New Years honours list. We have interviews with John Copland and Jean Leonard, who will both be receiving MBEs.

This week’s newspaper also features full reports and pictures galore of the two New Year’s Day Ba’ games, as well as coverage of the two Stromness Yule Log contests.

Also in this week’s newspaper:

• Three festive babies arrive at The Balfour hospital.

• An Orkney man prepares to give blood for the 100th time

• The second part of our review of 2019

• The retiring chief executive of NHS Orkney, Gerry O’Brien, talks about his career with the health service.

For all these stories and much more, pick up a copy of The Orcadian today.