Today's Orkney internet sensation

Friday, 02 September 2011 16:23
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A short film entitled "Life in the Orkneys" preserved and put online by the Scottish Screen Archive has gone viral amongst Orkney Facebookers.

The film dates from 1957 and shows Orkney's transport links, main industries and takes in a visit to the County Show. It spends some time in Kirkwall and Stromness, and shows the Earl Sigurd laden with cargo, livestock and passengers heading to the isles. It also shows the production of Orkney Tweed in a mill in Kirkwall - news to me!

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All in all it paints a very flattering picture of Orkney, praising Orcadians as go-ahead industrious people.

So nothing has changed then!

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News context

Orkney was served by two local newspapers, The Orcadian, and its sister paper Orkney Today, both papers being printed and published in Kirkwall, and coming out on a Thursday, until the Orkney Today was shut down in October 2010. The Orcadian continues, with a healthy circulation of around 10,000.

Further afield, Aberdeen's Press and Journal has a Northern Isles edition and carries Orkney news, and likewise the BBC website has a North East/Northern Isles section, reflecting Orkney and Shetland's traditional transport links with Aberdeen.

Orkneycommunities.co.uk is a focal point for the websites of over 100 community groups, and they can submit their news stories and events directly to its front page. But most news in Orkney emanates from the local authority, the Orkney Islands Council.

 

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