In this week’s The Orcadian

This week’s edition of The Orcadian is now in shops and is available online, here.

On the front page, Orkney Islands Council’s plans to revolutionise inter-island ferry transport. It forecasts a lengthy journey, resulting in four new ro-ro vessels landing more frequently at revamped piers across the North Isles.

Also inside:

• New isles terminal plans take flight
• Ferry booking to become compulsory
• North Isles councillor calls out “discriminatory” concession scheme
• Scapa Crescent row continues
• Budget bill branded “shameful”
• New marine designations for Orkney waters
• MSP writes to First Minister over “Anglophobic hate speech”
• Care staff praised amid St Rognvald’s cluster
• OIC to consider becoming “green freeport” area
• Life-changing new multiple sclerosis drug approved for NHS Scotland
• Youth Café to benefit from Children in Need
• “Orcadians are awesome” says UK coast walker
• Big plans for redundant town centre space
• Orkney thespians gear up for SCDA competition
• Academy youngsters gain career skills
• No good news on the fertiliser front
• “Deeply distressing” seal images irk MP
• Linklater’s huge leap lifts him to the top