NorthLink creates more space for cars on ferries with tougher freight charging regime
NorthLink has announced it will introduce a tougher charging regime for freight customers in a bid to stamp out the high level of “no show”
READ FULL STORYNorthLink has announced it will introduce a tougher charging regime for freight customers in a bid to stamp out the high level of “no show”
READ FULL STORYA teenager who drove while almost two-and-a-half times the drink driving limit was fined £800 and disqualified for two years at Lerwick Sheriff Court.
READ FULL STORYLerwick lifeboat is towing a stricken yacht towards Shetland after it suffered mast damage and was left without sufficient fuel to make land.
READ FULL STORYNHS Shetland chairman Ian Kinniburgh believes there will have to be “significant changes” to the way the health authority operates to help it cope with
READ FULL STORYA quartet of young Shetlanders has recently completed a tour of schools around the world as part of the Learning School project.
READ FULL STORYThe BBC is on the hunt for hairy mums from the isles. Or, more specifically, women armed with long-standing home-cooked recipes to feature in the
READ FULL STORYYouth projects in Shetland are to benefit from a £15,800 grant from the Scottish Government as part of a £2.5 million scheme created from the
READ FULL STORYShetland south councillor Rick Nickerson, who resigned as the council’s culture and recreation spokesman in protest against the proposal of charging for musical tuition, has
READ FULL STORYFor lovers of the peculiar, The Guardian website’s re-creation of World Cup matches on a lego pitch with lego men, filmed in slow motion, proved
READ FULL STORYBobby Macaulay continues his journey in southern Africa and reports back from a trip to a holiday resort in Mozambique.
READ FULL STORYWeekend discos and dances in rural halls providing entertainment for young people have been hit by withdrawal of buses from Lerwick.
READ FULL STORYThe lunchtime reception to launch the Annual Report of the Crown Estate Commissioners is usually one of the grander invitations to land on my desk
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