Additional buses on West Mainland Show day & free shuttle bus County Show Day
Extra Buses West Mainland & County Show Days
Action Needed Now to Address Cost of Living Crisis
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland has called for an emergency meeting with the UK Prime Minister and the heads of the Welsh and Northern Ireland governments.
Connecting with Nature in our Built Up Spaces
Graduate student Lam Huynh from the Graduate Program in Sustainability Science at the University of Tokyo and team conducted a systematic literature review of 301 academic articles exploring the connections between nature and human well-being.
Weather Forecast: Cloudy with outbreaks of rain.
Windy at times, easing from late afternoon. Maximum temperature 15 °C.
Nationalising Energy: The Quebec Example
In Quebec “fuel poverty is at 7%, compared to an estimated 44% in Orkney after the April 2022 price cap rise” Robert Leslie
#Covid Deaths in the UK now at 200,137
Trade unions in England have written to the UK Government over precautions which should be in place in schools to limit the transmission of Covid within those settings.
Pangur Bán
“Pangur Bán and I at work,/Adepts, equals, cat and clerk:/His whole instinct is to hunt,/Mine to free the meaning pent.”
Tractor Attraction
It was tractors galore at the 2022 Orkney Vintage Show, held over the weekend of the 6th and 7th of August at Orkney Auction Mart, Kirkwall.
Weather Forecast: Rather cloudy, but mostly dry.
Moderate westerly winds. Maximum temperature 16 °C.
‘Beyond the Stones’
Wessex Archaeology have produced an excellent film which looks at the landscape, how it was used by Neolithic people and the wider context which led to the building of Stonehenge.
