MP seeks to challenge Hillswick Post Office plan
Isles MP Alistair Carmichael has written to every Hillswick resident enclosing a copy of his “Local Post Office Questionnaire” regarding the recently-announced proposals for a…
READ FULL STORYIsles MP Alistair Carmichael has written to every Hillswick resident enclosing a copy of his “Local Post Office Questionnaire” regarding the recently-announced proposals for a…
READ FULL STORYThe community in North Yell has lodged its planning application for five wind turbines at Gutcher. At a height of 70 metres to the tip…
READ FULL STORYA persistent offender who brandished a claw hammer hours after being released on bail berated the sheriff for imposing too lenient a sentence on him…
READ FULL STORYThe Shetland Times is to carry out a major test of public opinion on the proposed Viking windfarm in the absence of any official move…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL An experiment in growing farmed halibut in the isles by three prominent local businessmen has led to their company going out of…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL A Lerwick councillor who believes the community’s rulers are attempting to “railroad” through the project to build the £50 million new Anderson…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL A budding entrepreneur who quit his job as an accountant and moved to the isles last year with the intention of setting…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL SIC councillors’ allowances and expenses cost the public purse almost half a million pounds in the last year, according to official figures…
READ FULL STORYBy RYAN TAYLOR She hurt her knee part way through and had to walk for four miles before gaining her strength back, but Lerwick woman…
READ FULL STORYBy LOUISE THOMASON For 31 years the Hillhead has been the mainstay of Asian cuisine in Shetland, but last week the Golden Coach moved premises….
READ FULL STORY192 more days A prisoner had 192 days added to his sentence at Lerwick Sheriff Court this week for harbouring a child who had absconded…
READ FULL STORYBy LOUISE THOMASON Pupils at Aith Junior High School held a film screening and awards ceremony on Friday to celebrate the efforts of S2, who…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL An appeal from Shetland Amenity Trust for an extra £68,000 in public cash just two months into the new financial year was…
READ FULL STORYInstead of clearing up mess, one rubbish collector made more in Lerwick this week when his truck bumped into the monument at the Market Cross…
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