
Celebrating our rural Post Boxes
Celebrating our rural Post Boxes
Electric hydrofoil passenger ferries and Scotland’s Programme for Government – what lies ahead for Orkney ?
Mainly dry for Orkney. Feeling cool with a fresh northerly wind. Maximum temperature 13 °C.
‘We’ve been given this boat and we’re really chuffed’, Mark Shiner, Curriculum Leader for Maritime and Engineering at UHI Orkney
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast are transforming wind turbine blades, which are set to be landfilled or incinerated, into footbridges that can hold the weight of a 30-tonne digger.
The CfDs will allow Orbital to expand its development of projects in Orkney with the construction of 6 turbines now covered by the Contracts for Difference scheme.
People have until Sunday 25 September to note Expressions of Interest for the Community Capacity Grants Programme, which is part of Crown Estate Scotland’s Sustainable Communities Fund.
“It is with dismay that we learn about mass redundancies and budget cuts to UHI’s Executive Office”
Rather cloudy start then becoming brighter with sunny spells developing. Also dry much of the time but there will be a few passing showers. More in the way of sunshine later. Occasionally fresh westerly breeze. Maximum temperature 16 °C.
Celebrating our rural Post Boxes