Search teams to be honoured for saving walker’s life on Ronas Hill
CHIEF coastguard Rod Johnson will tonight honour various team members involved in a major search and rescue mission to save a man who was lost…
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Members dream of plastic heaven
SIC COUNCILLORS are unlikely to get their own corporate credit cards despite the obvious attractions. Councillor Gussie Angus floated the idea on Wednesday at the…
READ FULL STORYMore SIC spending?
THE EXPECTED recession could lead to a spending splurge by the SIC rather than drastic cutbacks, convener Sandy Cluness hinted this week. He said the…
READ FULL STORYCorrection
WE HAVE been asked to point out that the medal author James W Irvine will receive is the Saint Olav’s Medal, and not the King…
READ FULL STORYRare species found deep down
THE LOCAL whitefish trawler Guardian Angell has been clocking up its rare fish finds. A 5ft long deal fish, Trachipterus arcticus was caught at the…
READ FULL STORYFishmarket struggles to cope with bumper whitefish catches
By RYAN TAYLOR FISHING boats arriving at Lerwick with bumper catches have had to be turned away from the market because of insufficient space. A…
READ FULL STORYRNLI spared VHF hike
By RYAN TAYLOR FEARS the lifeboat service could be severely hampered by a dramatic hike in costs have been laid to rest after communications regulator…
READ FULL STORYPort is nation’s greenest
IT MAY not be a particularly catchy title, but the award of the BS EN ISO 14001:2004 environmental standard to Lerwick Port Authority has put…
READ FULL STORYPipe-layer in for shelter
TOWERING high above its fellow visitors to Lerwick Harbour this week was the rather distinctive CSO Apache pipe-laying ship. The unusual-looking mammoth 123m-long structure, owned…
READ FULL STORYTanker scare
ALARM bells were briefly set ringing after a Maltese oil tanker lost power shortly after leaving the harbour at Sullom Voe this week. The 239m…
READ FULL STORYObituary: Firm minded, fair and honest – a good epitaph and richly deserved
Bertie Nicolson 1920-2008 I FIRST got to know Bertie Nicolson of Brindister quite a few years ago, when we used to buy the occasional dairy…
READ FULL STORYViews from the Scord 24.10.08
Harbour news SOMETHING of a record week for Scalloway Harbour in the week to Friday in that the quayside was virtually devoid of anything to…
READ FULL STORYLetter from Edinburgh 24.10.08
I’M writing this from Bressay, and having checked online the business numbers today it’s petrol that once again seems top of the inbox. Crude oil…
READ FULL STORYTimes Past 24.10.08
25 YEARS AGO The official inauguration ceremony for the new Skerries ferry “Filla” scheduled for Wednesday had to be postponed as it was not possible…
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