Lobbyless and Whalsay both recorded wins in the indoor hockey knockout competition for the Robertson Cup on Saturday, while New Rev also progressed to the semi-finals after Crusaders failed to field a team.

Lerwick Port Authority has struck a deal with a Norwegian company to develop a deep-water quay at the Dales Voe base north of Lerwick in a bid to attract further decommissioning work from the North Sea.

Shetlanders got their first sight of the new NorthLink cargo boat on Monday when the Hildasay arrived in Lerwick.

Seafarers especially will know that if the eye of the master on the bridge is diverted, and a firm grip on the wheel is not maintained, the ship will have a tendency to lurch around.

Many of the individual events at the current Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow have a Shetland flavour. JIM TAIT experien­ced two of them last week.

The final year of the decade began with much opposition to plans to turn a former fish factory at Blydoit near Scalloway into a slaughterhouse.

2008 There was good news at the beginning of the year when a Burmese family were finally granted leave to stay in Shetland after a five-year battle against deportation.

Police are carrying out investigations after a quad bike was stolen from a farm in Dunrossness overnight on New Year’s Eve.

The year got off to a tragic start when the bodies of a couple from Burra were discovered at their home.

If a decade of reviewing can allow one puff of our own trumpet, we will begin with the news in January that The Shetland Times had been named Newspaper of the Year for 2005 in the Highlands and Islands Media Awards.