Times Past 24.12.08
25 YEARS AGO While most of us are looking back over the year and pondering what 1984 may hold for us the Shetland Hamefarin Committee…
READ FULL STORY25 YEARS AGO While most of us are looking back over the year and pondering what 1984 may hold for us the Shetland Hamefarin Committee…
READ FULL STORYBusiness services Initiative at the Edge (I@TE) has issued a leaflet highlighting the services that it offers from its office in the Sellafirth Business Park…
READ FULL STORYTHE HOOPER Review of postal delivery market which was published last week did not make pleasant reading. The Royal Mail (the delivery network as opposed…
READ FULL STORYBoyz Aloud reunited IT’S evident through reading the Wrultizers’ website that this football team don’t take themselves too seriously, but it’s also evident that over…
READ FULL STORYTHOSE with a penchant for loud rock music will now be able to gorge themselves on a new taster CD showcasing some of Shetland’s top…
READ FULL STORYA FEMALE singer-songwriter from Ollaberry recently released her debut solo album, featuring 10 all-acoustic tracks. Antonia Sidgwick, 21, who is in the final year of…
READ FULL STORYTOP Shetland musician Andrew Gifford has a new band, Adopted as Holograph, in which he pursues his passion for double bass rather than the frantic…
READ FULL STORYDELTING Dolphins swimmer Felix Gifford won five gold, two silver and three bronze medals at the recent North District Championships at Inverness, breaking eight age…
READ FULL STORYAfter former rugby player, boxer and sports physio Mal Smith was featured in this paper a few months ago, he came in for some stick…
READ FULL STORYFIRST division netball winners Kinetics finished on a high by defeating AHS while Supernova could not muster a team and had to concede the points…
READ FULL STORYFIRST division badminton players were busy last week catching up with fixtures before the league splits. Two of the teams with designs on the title…
READ FULL STORYTHE MERITS of the BBC’s annual Sports Personality of the Year programme remain pretty hazy, but at least for the past two years the main…
READ FULL STORYTHE FINAL round of the radio model car winter championship was held on Saturday at the Gilbertson Park games hall. Touring car, 19-turn (qualifying): 1…
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