A LARGE pink concrete wheel was stolen from the front garden of a property in Quoybanks place in Kirkwall between February 25 and this Monday.

Kirkwall police officers would like to speak to anyone with knowledge of this incident on 01856 872241.

A CAR on Westray was completely burnt out after a road accident on the island last weekend. The Renault Clio left the link road near to Rackwick in the early hours of Sunday morning, March 7, and then caught fire.

The 18-year-old male driver, the sole occupant of the vehicle, was uninjured in the accident.

Also in the early hours of Sunday, at about 3am, a Peugeot 106 crashed on the main Kirkwall to Finstown road near Davies Brig. The car left the road, smashed through a dry stone wall and ended up on the beach, half a mile outside of Finstown.

No one was hurt in the incident. A report is to be submitted to the procurator fiscal in Kirkwall.

ALL P7 and S1 pupils in Orkney are taking part in drama workshops with Scottish Youth Theatre to learn about the perils of alcohol abuse.

The Wise Choices workshops started this week and will run until March 19.

The initiative is a team effort between OIC's education and leisure services, in partnership with Orkney Alcohol and Drugs Partnership and Scottish Youth Theatre.

ORKNEY and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael is asking people in the Northern Isles to tell him their recent experiences with the banking sector after the publication of a report critical of the failure of the banks to reach binding lending targets.

Mr Carmichael is a member of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee, which yesterday published a report into the experience of small and medium businesses with the banking sector since the onset of the financial crisis.

THE case against a teenager accused of three assaults and breaching the peace was continued without plea at Kirkwall Sheriff Court this afternoon.

19-year-old William Mills, of Little Twinness, Tankerness, appeared from custody on Monday, March 8, charged with conducting himself in disorderly manner, shouting, swearing and committing a breach of the peace at Pipersquoy Terrace on Sunday, March 7.

He is also accused of assaulting a woman and two men at the same address. He is charged with grabbing hold of the woman and pushing her against wall, repeatedly throwing punches at one man, punching him on the head to his injury, and repeatedly butting the other man on the head, pulling him to the ground and repeatedly kicking him in the head, all to his injury.

Mills was ordered to reappear in court on March 17. In the meantime he was released on bail, under the special condition that remain in his home from 7pm - 7am each day.