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Brexit Update: Are We There Yet?

Time is marching on and there is less than a year before the UK leaves the EU on March 29th 2019.

“It’s a disgrace that families in Orkney and across Scotland are having to rely on emergency food parcels just to get by.”

Seeing Skara Brae as it is now – all manicured – I thought how good it would be for folk to see these images from when it was first discovered

The deadline for the survey is now April 30th 2018.

Serco Northlink have also been given an extension to their contract for running the Northern Isles Ferries to 31st October 2019.

“170,625 three day emergency food supplies were handed to people in crisis, with 55,038 of these provided for children.”

Orkney Islands Council is to hold a series of public meetings to explain why they are making cuts to services, including those termed ‘high risk’.

The payments which are worth over £300million are the final amounts of the 2017 year.

The Governments of Malawi and Scotland have signed a joint agreement for cooperative working: A Global Goals Partnership.

Extra tickets are to be released for Runrig’s Farewell Concert on Friday 17th August 2018.