In this week’s edition of The Orcadian

This week’s edition of The Orcadian is now available from all the usual outlets, and here.

This week’s front page features stories on:

• A local women’s aid charity puts out a plea over the current lack of local rape forensic facilities, receiving a pledge from Holyrood to review arrangements.

• A man who brandished a knife at a woman, two weeks after his pet snake bit a child, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.

This week’s paper also features:

• The toilets at the Burray Community Association family play park falls foul of what has been called “an act of mindless vandalism.”

• The operators of St Margaret’s Hope Pier have revealed aspirations to extend the ‘Hope pier, as well as possibly develop a marina, within the harbour area.

• An Edinburgh-based artist with Orkney roots is bidding to capture the Ba’ in a large-scale street mural.

For these stories, plus round-ups of all the week’s top news from around Orkney, pick up a copy of The Orcadian today.