Helicopter airlifts ill woman from Fair Isle in thick mist
An elderly woman who fell ill had to be airlifted by helicopter from Fair Isle on Friday morning after thick mist prevented her being taken…
READ FULL STORYAn elderly woman who fell ill had to be airlifted by helicopter from Fair Isle on Friday morning after thick mist prevented her being taken…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON Shetland babies have been dying during their first year at a rate more than two-and-a-half times that of the rest of Scotland,…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL Sixteen people have been killed in the worst helicopter disaster in the North Sea since the Chinook tragedy more than 20 years…
READ FULL STORYBy ROSALIND GRIFFITHS The big night and the culmination of weeks of hard work will take place at Clickimin tomorrow as 16 dancers take the…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL Construction of Shetland’s £12.2 million cinema and music venue Mareel will finally get underway in “a matter of weeks” after the contract…
READ FULL STORYBy RYAN TAYLOR A row has broken out over whether the council should have commissioned legal firm Dundas and Wilson to carry out a £50,000…
READ FULL STORYBy LAWRENCE TULLOCH Everyone at the Mid Yell Junior High School is cock-a-hoop because pupils have scooped up the first four places in a Scotland-wide…
READ FULL STORYBy RYAN TAYLOR Late-night licensees able to serve alcohol until 2am have criticised a decision to force them to close an hour earlier than usual…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON Nearly 3,000 SIC workers have been offered pay rises and lump sums of back-pay under the revised single status proposal issued for…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON The Scottish Government has agreed to help the big Norwegian salmon companies in Shetland following last week’s outcry when it ruled out…
READ FULL STORYBy LOUISE THOMASON Work began at Bells Brae Primary School this week to install temporary classrooms which will be used while the building’s windows are…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL The days of eating bacon rolls, sandwiches and hot meals subsidised by the public purse could become a thing of the past…
READ FULL STORYBy RYAN TAYLOR Television viewers daunted by next year’s digital switch over have nothing to fear, according to staff from the independent organisation leading the…
READ FULL STORYBy ROSALIND GRIFFITHS Work on a new £4 million bird observatory in Fair Isle is set to start in the next few weeks after the…
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