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News • Documentary sheds new light on search for Papa Stronsay monk News • Flight prices under pressure, in this week’s The Orcadian News • Kirkwall vets appeal surgery planning decision to Scottish Government News • Global outage of Microsoft impacting Orkney’s services News • Sixty years of climbing Orkney landmark celebrated News • Time to cut the costs of town centre parking? News • ‘Strong feeling’ that condition of kirkyards is ‘not up to scratch’ News • ‘Distressing messages’ sent to Orkney schools in national ‘hoax’ News • Abattoir’s arrival akin to childbirth for Firth farmer News • Orkney to fall silent for remembrance events News • OIC and NHS Orkney reform: two new officers to assist with talks

Observing comet Garradd

News • 09/01/2012

The comet will shortly become circumpolar (never sets) from the latitude of Orkney.

Full details are available on the NORTHERN SKIES site at http://www.spanglefish.com/northernskies/index.asp?pageid=338181.

Meanwhile, information on the newly formed Orkney Astronomical Society information may be found at http://www.spanglefish.com/northernskies/index.asp?pageid=362885

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