In this week’s The Orcadian

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

This week’s front page highlights The Orcadian and McAdie & Reeve’s Gaan the Distance for Ukraine appeal, which sets out to fill at least one lorry load of vital supplies and deliver them to an aid point in north-east Romania.

The response to the appeal has been overwhelming since being launched last Thursday, and the appeal for items and funds to a special JustGiving page continues.

Full details of the appeal can be found inside.

Also inside:

• Artificial intelligence to be trialled at hydrogen plant
• Finstown traffic website goes live
• Public consultation launched for offshore wind project
• Orkney COVID infection rate highest in the UK
• Fatal quad bike accident cause ‘undetermined’
• Boost for Eday Heritage Centre
• Parish Cup of Food back on the menu
• National accolade for Orkney fiddle star
• Memories of wartime in Orkney

For all this and much more, pick up The Orcadian today.