A drop-in event in the Town Hall, Stromness is to be held on Tuesday 18 March between 2 and 6pm to inform the public about the ongoing construction of the underground land cables on the Orkney-Caithness Link project.  The next phase of work, which began this month, involves construction of the new land cable stone platform from where the subsea cable will come ashore at Warebeth, before the cable will then be installed underground to the new substation being constructed at Finstown, a distance of around 14km.

During our recent Sky Gathering in Orkney, Scotland, Larry Kupeli (Member 45,456) took a quiet stroll to Warebeth Cemetery, just outside the harbour town of Stromness, where he came across a Stratocumulus lenticularis paying its respects. ...