Now posted on YouTube by Jimbo1622, here is the 1964 colour film produced about the National Commercial bank's floating branch, the Otter Bank.
Marvel at the way the film maker contrives to get our heroes to arrive at the Corn Slip by a route that transcends time, place and sense! Gasp at the speed with which the boat thrashes out of the basin.
Brilliant.
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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.
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