Carmichael increases majority on bad night for Liberal Democrats
Alistair Carmichael has won the Orkney and Shetland seat in the general election with an increased majority on a night when his Liberal Democrat party
READ FULL STORYAlistair Carmichael has won the Orkney and Shetland seat in the general election with an increased majority on a night when his Liberal Democrat party
READ FULL STORYA Boddam slaughterhouse firm has still not met the conditions attached to a £450,000 grant from the SIC to upgrade its premises.
READ FULL STORYThe performance of Shetland’s councillors has been heavily criticised in a long-awaited report by Scotland’s financial watchdog into the crisis-ridden local authority.
READ FULL STORYWhile Shetland boasts plenty of talented people, over the years there are not many who have made it onto the West End stage in an
READ FULL STORYAs though the havoc wreaked by the Eyjafjallajökull volcano last month were not enough to convince us, two more disastrous events have since unfolded that
READ FULL STORYWhile the rest of us had the opportunity this month to exercise our right to vote, young folk all over the country had to sit
READ FULL STORYWhen I was young it was simple. Working people voted Labour, posh folk and farmers voted Conservative, “teuchters” voted Liberal and a collection of various
READ FULL STORYAs soon as war was declared, the Shetland Women’s Suffrage Society formed the Emergency Helpers, with the SWSS Chairman, Harriet Leisk, as convenor, and Jessie
READ FULL STORYHit wis da sam da last time yon volcano gied aff. I got da blame for da smell. I wis joost a peerie trow
READ FULL STORYMany Shetlanders have welcomed the announcement by the Postmaster-general that he has approved, in principle, the second stage of the B.B.C.’s plans for extending and
READ FULL STORYFor the second time in 25 years Shetland is celebrating the return of “exiles” from many parts of the world. For all of them it
READ FULL STORYThe new Anderson High School and hall of residence could be built on the playing fields south of the Clickimin Centre under new options being
READ FULL STORYThe Anderson High School English department’s annual dialect writing competition “Mindin John Graham wi da best o wirds” has been won by Louie Gray.
READ FULL STORYCourtesy of Audit Scotland, we now know that the cost to council taxpayers of removing David Clark from his post will be at least £306,000
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