Building much-needed toilets at the Ring of Brodgar could cost as much as £1.7 million, a study has revealed. Growing tourist traffic has shone a harsh spotlight on the Neolithic attraction in recent years, with calls for toilets there becoming ever more urgent. A feasibility study has been done but the “costs and practicalities” of […]
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Around £55 million in investment in Orkney’s electricity network has been announced. SSEN Distribution says the projects will create an even more reliable network, which will also provide greater capacity to support future economic growth and electrification. The projects involve the construction of new substations, the reinforcement and upgrading of existing overhead lines carried on […]
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Original plans for one of Orkney’s most iconic wartime buildings have been discovered. Buried away in The National Archives, historian lan Brown has found the records for Kirkwall’s famous Black Building. Demolished in 2009, the imposing structure at Inganess Road was an important headquarters of the RAF during the Second World War. Mr Brown, an […]
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Two traditionally rigged tall ships crewed by a rotating team of 70 wounded, injured and sick (WIS) veterans and serving personnel, will sail into Stromness, as part of a UK expedition. The voyage, coordinated by local veteran sailing charity Turn to Starboard and delivered in partnership with Invictus Games Birmingham 2027, aims to raise £300,000 so the […]
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Two Burray boys will be putting pedal to the metal today as they undertake a mammoth cycle for Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA).  Caleb Sutherland, aged nine, and Louie Wilson, aged ten, will be clocking up 20 miles, cycling from The Sands Hotel in Burray to the Burwick Pier in South Ronaldsay and back.  The […]
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