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.

The front page features the first Stromness Yule Log in 80 years, and the Ba’ Committee’s praise for players’ conduct in the New Year Games.

Also in the paper:

• Three well-known Orkney faces — Rita Jamieson, Glenys Hughes, and Bryan Sutherland — receive awards in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List.

• Orkney Ferries officers vote for industrial action in their long-running pay dispute.

• A full round-up with reports and photographs of the boys’ and men’s New Year Ba’ games, as well as the Stromness Yule Log.

• The second part of our news review of 2017.

• Also free inside this week is The Peedie Orcadian — our monthly newspaper for young folk.