Products produced by St James Smokehouse and sold under Lidl’s ‘Deluxe Oak Smoked Scottish Louch Trout’ and ‘Lighthouse Bay Smoked Trout Trimmings’ ranges are being recalled because they may contain Listeria monocytogenes.
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Weather Forecast: Yellow Warning Ice
Mainly dry, turning windy in the afternoon.
The Southern Sky
Venus and the Pleiades over Australia, Aug 2017 by Yuri Beletsky – Orion at top, Betelgeuse at foot
Christmas Past: Home
“Home By Christmas. That’s what they said during the war. In the Middle East, in Burma, in P.W. camps everywhere”
The Nutcracker #OnThisDay
On December 18th 1892, ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet was first performed in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Weather Forecast: Bright spells and a few showers today. Windy.
Feeling cold in the fresh or strong southwesterly winds. Maximum temperature 5 °C.
A Flotilla of Light for Hogmanay
Kirkwall Kayak Club will be paddling around Kirkwall harbour on Hogmanay afternoon lit up in festive lights to raise funds for the RNLI.
Theophilus (Theo) Ogbhemhe: Clapping Hands
Theophilus (Theo) Ogbhemhe is a teacher of religious, moral and philosophical studies at Kirkwall Grammar School.
The Scottish Budget
39% of Scottish adults (1.8 million individuals) are not affected by the 2023-24 policy changes as their income is below the UK-wide Personal Allowance.
Christmas Past: ‘The Sorrowful Christmas of 1899’
‘May this mad war the latest be/Which we who live shall never see’