In this week’s edition of The Orcadian

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

This week’s front page features a number of reactions to last week’s announcement that Orkney’s only abattoir would be closing with immediate effect, including a statements from OIC and Orkney Meat Processors Ltd (OMPL), as well as accounts of the affect the closure will have from two local producers.

Also in this week’s paper:

• A local man is jailed for six months after setting off fireworks in the middle of the day on one of Kirkwall’s busiest streets.

• A local man, who has made an incredible recovery from a brain aneurysm in 2016 thanks the Orcadian public for their “extraordinary and overwhelming generosity and support.”

• Sent home in his pyjamas. A Sanday woman, who claims her 80-year-old husband was discharged from Balfour Hospital and sent home on the boat without her knowledge, says she now has “zero confidence” in NHS Orkney.

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