Community renewable projects win seal of approval
COMMUNITY Energy Scotland is taking a lead role in assisting the development of a wide variety of projects across Shetland. One example is the new…
READ FULL STORYCOMMUNITY Energy Scotland is taking a lead role in assisting the development of a wide variety of projects across Shetland. One example is the new…
READ FULL STORYIn the second of a three-part series on the proposed Viking Energy windfarm, PAUL RIDDELL asks whether wind power is a reliable source of electricity…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL SHETLAND’S oil fund investments have lost almost £45m in value in the past six months, prompting the council’s finance chief to call…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL A COUNCILLOR has hit out at the “serial incompetence” demonstrated by the leadership of the SIC, which could cost taxpayers in Shetland…
READ FULL STORYBy PAUL RIDDELL SHETLAND’S first food festival and the quality of island food generally won ringing endorsements from popular TV chef Jean Christophe Novelli, who…
READ FULL STORYONE of Shetland’s finest natural products – the mussel – got a firm seal of approval at last weekend’s food festival at the Clickimin Leisure…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL A FAMILY of four faces a credit card charge of almost £50 for booking to fly from Sumburgh to London on the…
READ FULL STORYBy ROSALIND GRIFFITHS THE CONTROVERSIAL period of shared headship of two Yell schools is to come to an end with the appointment of a new…
READ FULL STORYBy ROSALIND GRIFFITHS THE SHETLAND CLAN 1,2,3 appeal has just broken the £50,000 barrier. The appeal for a new cancer centre in Aberdeen was launched…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL HOPES of gas from fields to the west of Shetland being piped through Sullom Voe, which could lead to a half billion…
READ FULL STORYAN INVESTIGATION has been launched after more than 1,500 litres of oily water escaped into the sea from Sullom Voe Oil Terminal’s dirty water drainage…
READ FULL STORYBy ROSALIND GRIFFITHS YOUTH campaigner Daniel Robertson has been suspended from the Scottish Youth Parliament after an alleged drunken spree. Mr Robertson, 20, from Sullom,…
READ FULL STORYFOUR Shetland College UHI students will travel south next month for a week-long work placement with top British chefs. George McIvor, who was in Shetland…
READ FULL STORYFURTHER work needs to be done to get the size of the proposed new Anderson High School down to the target size of 15,000 square…
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