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MORE than 300 children from primary schools, nurseries and playgroups, along with 50 staff, have visited the Seas Around Us project at the NAFC Marine…
READ FULL STORYMORE than 300 children from primary schools, nurseries and playgroups, along with 50 staff, have visited the Seas Around Us project at the NAFC Marine…
READ FULL STORYSHELLFISH company North Atlantic Shellfish Ltd scooped the business development award at the Crown Estate Scottish Marine Aquaculture Awards in Edinburgh last week. This is…
READ FULL STORYTHE National Health Service was born 60 years ago this week into a dutiful, deferential age. Three years after the end of the Second World…
READ FULL STORYChris Stout’s Run North Tour, Fair Isle Hall, Friday, 27th June. BY Kathy Coull WHEN Chris Stout plays on Fair Isle soil there is an…
READ FULL STORYNeil Georgeson, Town Hall, Sunday, June 29. BY Ruth Webster IT WOULD have been easy for Neil Georgeson to adorn his latest very welcome homecoming…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL THE COMMON characteristic of so many records released by the never-ending stream of bands who sprung up across the country in the…
READ FULL STORYBONHOGA Gallery is hosting an exhibition of work by Shetland artist Maxie Bain. The show, entitled A Closer Look, is a wealth of watercolours portraying…
READ FULL STORYPROLIFIC author of over 100 books and 600 short stories, Jean Saunders is to give a talk entitled “My Writing Life” at Shetland Library on…
READ FULL STORYTHIS must surely be the week of the well-kent Luckaminnie’s Oo, the bog cotton. It is in full flower, shining, silvery white fluffy heads catching…
READ FULL STORYALTHOUGH spring migration is just about at an end now, it will all be starting in reverse again soon. Just a few crossbills, swifts and…
READ FULL STORY25 YEARS AGO The pelagic fishing fleet was in a state of confusion this week as the EEC appeared incapable of settling the dispute over…
READ FULL STORYI DO not believe that the constituency of Henley would ever feature high among the seats expected to be won by the Labour Party, but…
READ FULL STORYAngling news The Maggie Umphray Memorial Trophy was held on a splendid, warm Saturday with near flat calm seas. The ideal conditions drew out 14…
READ FULL STORYCheerio to Drew AFTER some 25 years of compiling the North Mainland Notes, Drew Ratter has set down his notepad and it is now my…
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