Council convener Sandy Cluness says the opportunity for more local control should be grasped.

“So, Clive, what’s your Top 10 albums of all time ?”

No-one’s asked me that in a long time but when Tom asked me about doing a music column for Shetland Life I remembered that he had run a feature in The Shetland Times back in the late 80s in which (relatively) well known Shetlanders were asked to name their favourite 10 albums.

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Shetland Chamber of Commerce considered the time ripe for the re-opening of the question of protecting the name “Shetland” in connection with the local woollen industry, and offered S.W.I.A Ltd. all support towards that end. The latter organisation has of course been unobtrusively doing just that for years.

1986 will soon be over. It has been a year of mixed fortunes for Shetland culminating in the terrible tragedy near Sumburgh when 45 men lost their lives.

NorthLink has cancelled tonight’s sailing from Aberdeen due to the poor weather conditions and tomorrow’s sailing from Aberdeen is in doubt. An update will follow tomorrow morning.

Severe gale force winds caused damage and disruption to national and local ferry services and flights today – and destroyed a caravan in the Skerries.

An Unst bus and taxi operator accused of driving while nearly three times the legal alcohol limit was acquitted on a technicality today at Lerwick Sheriff Court.

American film director Martin Scorsese has Shetland blood, he declared today.

As your readers will be aware, the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) wrote last week to the trustees of the Shetland Charitable Trust asking them to take urgent action to address issues with the trust’s governance.