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Sport • Search for new Orkney football manager begins after shock departures Features • Potentially ‘horrible’ 48 hours instead filled with kindness News • Stromness set for Orkney’s biggest public bonfire News • Pops on parade: a ‘very Stromness’ Bonfire Night tradition News • Orkney crafters bare all for charity calendar News • Suspended council chief won’t take on key 2027 election role News • Big switch-on for Kirkwall’s new winter lights News • January start for halls of residence demolition News • Six month saga continues for council’s ‘special leave’ chief News • Body found after missing person search News • Council leader set to return to work nine weeks after giving birth News • ‘Save our Scouts’ — plea for volunteers as group struggles to survive News • Striding onwards — Lucie Watson shares hope in breast cancer fight

Sky Notes update

News • 16/12/2013
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Comet Lovejoy imaged December 9th at 18h 48m UT. (John Vetterlein)

The fate of Comet ISON, the continuing fortunes of Comet Lovejoy and the fast fading Comet LINEAR, with some bright GEMINID meteors having a mention.

Go to: http://www.spanglefish.com/northernskies/index.asp?pageid=386198

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