Extraordinary success for CLAN appeal as it reaches £650,000
The year-long CLAN 1,2,3 appeal to raise money in Shetland for a new cancer centre in Aberdeen is expected to have raised an extraordinary £650,000
READ FULL STORYThe year-long CLAN 1,2,3 appeal to raise money in Shetland for a new cancer centre in Aberdeen is expected to have raised an extraordinary £650,000
READ FULL STORYThe birth of a baby boy in April signalled the start of the fifth generation of a family with roots in Whalsay and the North
READ FULL STORYClosed-circuit television is to be installed on a number of Scottish fishing boats under a pilot scheme designed to cut down on the volume of
READ FULL STORYROBERT WISHART is totally opposed to the Viking Energy windfarm plan which he believes will desecrate Shetland’s landscape. Here he has a rant about recent
READ FULL STORYBorn Laurence Andrew Robertson in the Herra, Yell, on July 4th 1927, he was known all his life simply as Lell.
READ FULL STORYCrossing Water, Da Gadderie The latest exhibition by Britain’s most northerly group of artists, Veer North, was launched at Farum Kulterhus in Denmark last year
READ FULL STORYBatalden: Shipwreck and Emigration, by Trond Strømgren. Strømgren Publishing. Trond Strømgren is an unusual but confident Norwegian publisher. I say unusual because his imprint is
READ FULL STORYSo far the seabird breeding season in Shetland has been good, with even Arctic terns fledging young. After the disastrous breeding success of recent years,
READ FULL STORYI’m finding it hard to concentrate just now. The Shetland Field Studies Group found an unidentified non-flying object on last Sunday’s walk which looked tantalisingly
READ FULL STORYIt’s happened at last … I’ve managed to get killer whale on the garden list! In the past 20 years, to my knowledge, only two
READ FULL STORYCeltic did just enough to see off Scalloway in the Fraser Cup.
READ FULL STORYIt was a very successful weekend for three Shetland Wheeler cyclists. Carlos Riise lifted the Aberdeen District Ian Porter Trophy at the Furneux 100 mile
READ FULL STORYA group of six young Shetland sailors recently travelled to Loch Ard in the Trossachs to compete in the Scottish Mirror Championships.
READ FULL STORYSome Scottish members of parliament think that there is too much media coverage of cricket at the moment.
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