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, a family who experienced a heartbreaking loss due to ovarian cancer share their hope that testing for an Orkney variant of the BRCA1 gene could save others from the “brutality” of the “silent killer”.
Free inside — this month’s edition of The Peedie Orcadian, our newspaper for young folk.
Also inside:
- Biggest-ever Orkney Islander magazine hits the shelves
- Sidelining concerns aired for ferry taskforce
- Isles banks to reopen in “near future”
- Westray hub shares winter success
- Windfarm developers hopeful over quay use
- Coverage of criminal proceedings at Kirkwall Sheriff Court
- “Lost souls” claim refuted as COVID education pressures examined
- Wyre unveils new heritage centre
- Blistering headliners scheduled for Orkney Blues Festival
- Orkney’s spiralling housing demand examined
- Stromness Shopping Week Court unveiled
- Rendall joins 200 club in Whitecraigs win