ORKNEY and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael will tomorrow question HM Treasury on their unwillingness to trial a fuel duty rebate system in the Northern Isles.

Mr Carmichael will be pressing Treasury ministers to offer credible reasons why a fuel duty derogation such as that used in Europe cannot be piloted across Orkney and Shetland.

A WALL was damaged by someone who wrote graffiti on it using a marker pen at the weekend, between Friday and Saturday, February 5 - 6. The wall is within a communal area between two houses on Laverock Road, Kirkwall.

A red Toyota Celica car was struck and damaged by an unknown vehicle on North End Road, Stromness, sometime between 7.10am and noon on Wednesday, February 3.

Anyone with information about either incident is asked to call Kirkwall Police Station on Tel: 872241.

THE remains of a male diver were recovered from a wreck in Scapa Flow on Monday.

Police say that a post mortem examination will take place in Inverness and a report on the circumstances will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal in Kirkwall.

UP to 20 jobs are to go at Flotta Oil Terminal as part of plans to secure the facility's long-term future, operator Talisman Energy (UK) has announced today, Monday.

The company confirmed in a statement that it has been reviewing the organisational structure at Flotta, and this has highlighted what it described as 'areas for potential operational and cost efficiencies which we are addressing through a reorganisation'.

POLICE are seeking three people who are thought to have witnessed an incident between two men in the Grainpark area of Kirkwall, between 2 - 3am on Wednesday, February 3.

Police enquiries have established that these persons walked along Ayre Road, Kirkwall in the direction of the Peedie Sea at this time.

Anyone with information about the incident, or who these three people are, is asked to contact Kirkwall Police Station on Tel: 872241.