South Mainland councillor wants resignations over Scalloway fiasco
A councillor has called on the SIC’s leaders and two other members to resign following a row over a last-ditch bid to save Scalloway’s secondary
READ FULL STORYA councillor has called on the SIC’s leaders and two other members to resign following a row over a last-ditch bid to save Scalloway’s secondary
READ FULL STORYAllan Wishart was made chairman of the Shetland College board at a meeting in the Town Hall this morning.
READ FULL STORYA proposal for a major participatory theatre production drawn up by Shetland Arts and the National Theatre of Scotland has been shortlisted for one of
READ FULL STORYOrkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael has voiced his saddness at the resignation as leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats of re-elected MSP Tavish Scott.
READ FULL STORYNow safely re-elected, Tavish Scott drops his pretence on the Viking Energy windfarm.
READ FULL STORY“I did not come into journalism to go around gagging journalists”, declared the BBC’s Andrew Marr last month, as he admitted finally that gagging
READ FULL STORYThe hype around the band may have faded, but Chris Cope finds Oscar Charlie more confident and more hopeful than ever.
READ FULL STORYPlaying political games with Canada’s North It is election time again in Canada, which means a whole lot of vague spending platforms, photo ops in
READ FULL STORYWhen the massive earthquake hit Japan in March, former Shetland Life columnist Emily MacFarlane was working in Sendai, close to the epicentre. Here, she describes
READ FULL STORYOk, let me declare my interest straight off the bat – on May 5th, along with my Holyrood parliamentary votes, I will be voting YES
READ FULL STORYProud parents waved and the brass band played on Saturday morning as launches ferried 134 excited Shetland children to the educational cruise ship Dunera, which
READ FULL STORYAt the beginning of this year, the group’s morale was boosted when a lady offered to run a small cat shelter for us on her
READ FULL STORYA bid by seven councillors to halt the closure of Scalloway School’s secondary department until the new Anderson High School is built is not competent
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