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 this week, The Orcadian exclusively reveals the activities of an Orkney couple who, over the past nine years failed to pay for lavish properties in Florida and faced several US civil lawsuits, including actions filed by global media giants, Disney.
The revelations follow the conclusion of a criminal fraud case filed here in the UK — Lisa Groundwater pleaded guilty last Wednesday to depositing five cheques at the Royal Bank of Scotland over the course of nine weeks, to a total sum of £1,527,050, under the pretence that she had sufficient funds in various accounts in her name, and the name of her husband Kevin Groundwater.
She is due to be sentenced in March. All charges against Mr Groundwater were dropped.
Also included inside is a Energy Efficiency feature, a chance to win £100 worth of Lidl vouchers and a competition to win a two-night stay at The Station Hotel in Aberdeen.
Also inside:
- Keyboard lives to play another day after car fire
- Monster skate caught at Hatston
- Council tax set to increase
- Positivity in the face of price hikes and cancer
- Mask wearing requirement to come to an end
- Nursery closures due to COVID, not recruitment
- Auditors examine St Andrews School extension cost
- Remarkable pupil improvements hailed
- Council home rent to increase
- Boost for new Kirkwall lifeboat fund
- Creel camera scheme to launch in Orkney
- Orkney artefacts displayed at British Museum
- Lukewarm response to £50,000 goose funding
- Netball side mark return with win over rivals
- Inter-county pool players prepare to host Shetland