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<div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: start;">Most have you will have heard Councillor Mellissa Thomson speaking on BBC Radio Orkney this week about our ferry challenges - if you missed it you can listen here <span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important; font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://tinyurl.com/3xsymvvu?fbclid=IwAR1UEEvVLFNBMxx2cnPe3VkwoWVm7dgf5_Hl8--Q14vunGOcfMzKoF31krU" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank" style="color: var(--blue-link); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; padding: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; display: inline; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important; font-family: inherit;">https://tinyurl.com/3xsymvvu</a></span> and you can read our press release here <span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important; font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.orkney.gov.uk/News?postid=7693&fbclid=IwAR0A-ZkIRhhlSVDQ5ouK4sdEagnWN9tHQmpoGEBQDPHpYquS2OpaCNsKjG0" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank" style="color: var(--blue-link); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; padding: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; display: inline; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important; font-family: inherit;">https://www.orkney.gov.uk/News?postid=7693</a></span>. We've also made the front of The Orcadian this week on the issue.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: start;">We're continuing to press the Scottish Government for a further meeting of the taskforce. When <span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important; font-family: inherit;"><a tabindex="-1" style="color: rgb(56, 88, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important; font-family: inherit;"></a></span>that taskforce does meet we want to be presenting them with evidence of the real impact the current situation is having on folk in the isles - and so we want to hear from you!</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: start;">If you're willing to have yap with me about how ferry issues are affecting you, please drop me an email at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kirsty.groundwater@orkney.gov.uk">kirsty.groundwater@orkney.gov.uk</a></div>
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