In this week’s The Orcadian
This week’s edition of The Orcadian is now in shops and is available online, here.
Included in this week’s newspaper is an eight-page pull-out feature focusing on health, fitness and wellbeing.
Included is the first of our weekly features with three people embarking on a new fitness programme designed to lose weight, become fitter and leave them with a positive mindset.
The fall-out from Councillor John Ross Scott’s Standards Commission hearing continues, as he calls on the authority to stamp out the “playground antics”.
Councillor Scott was found guilty of three breaches of confidential hearing and suspended from attending meetings of the full council for three months.
OIC convener Harvey Johnston said “openness and accountability is at the forefront of all this council does”.
Also in this week’s newspaper:
- Groundbreaking Evie hydrogen/ammonia facility given planning green light
- Fixed penalties and formal warnings for COVID breaches issued by police
- NHS Orkney chief clarifies position on sharing COVID-19 case locations
- NorthLink freight ship remains out of service
- Parents despair over fears of ‘digital divide’
- Drugs being intercepted on ‘almost daily basis’
- Broad Street bins to be relocated to harbour area
- Kickstart scheme takes off in Orkney
- Four-month walking challenge raises money for RNLI
- Burray housing plan approved by OIC
- Maternity unit praised by international charity
- Hunt for vandals after Stromness cars damaged
- Stromness YouTuber strikes the right chord
- 2021 Orkney Folk Festival postponed
- Familiar Orkney cruise ships scrapped as COVID-19 impact bites into cruise industry
- Hydrogen ferry project delayed
- Discussions over ‘green port’ plan
- Orkney Sports Hall of Fame inductees in the spotlight
- Livestock worrying progress welcomed
- This Farming Life programme calls for new families
- Faroese tunnel vision makes waves in Scotland