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Scottish Greens Boosted by Shetland By-Election Campaign

They are encouraging their members to step forward for not just the Scottish Parliamentary elections but for a UK General Election too.

Singer songwriters Jess Morgan from England and Nels Andrews from the US are set to tour across the country and will be appearing in Orkney.

I asked Anna – why ‘Real Magic’? and she answered – it’s because these photographs have not been messed with – no Photoshop here. “”

The exhibition fills the cathedral with outstanding expressions of creativity using floral art to explore the themes.

The Programme Review Board is established to see the completion of the two CMAL ferries which were to serve west coast islands routes

Scapa 100: The Orkney Story a 3 day conference will be held in Stromness, Orkney from the 17th – 20th October 2019.

On 18 August 1746 Arthur Elphinstone, Lord Balmerino, the Jacobite noble, was executed.

Murdoch Mackenzie’s 1750 chart of Orkney led to a revolution in mapmaking and was the standard work for navigators until the modern admiralty chart.

“Iceland was not just built by Norsemen but equally by Celtic women whose spirit is still very much alive today.”

Have you seen many red admirals this year?