Loungers won convincingly against Supernova to strengthen their grip at the top of the netball first division while Team Rowley and Whalsay also recorded victories.

WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SHETLAND

Monday, 15 March 2010 at 11:23

HEADLINES

TODAY: RAIN MOVING NORTH
TONIGHT: BECOMING DRIER
TOMORROW: MOSTLY DRY
DAYS 2-5: RAIN, SHOWERS AND STRONG WINDS
DAYS 6-10: SHOWERS

It was a special day in the South Mainland on Friday with its first-ever Up-Helly-A’ festival proving a roaring success.

Lerwick lifeboat, Shetland Coastguard and police were called to the rescue of a woman who was seen in the water at the end of Lerwick’s Sea Road early on Thursday morning.

Funding of £36.8 million has been awarded to NHS Shetland from the Scottish government for the year 2010-11. The allocation was announced in the Scottish Parliament by health secretary Nicola Sturgeon on Thursday.

A fish farm worker who assaulted his daughter and threatened to kill a man as he battered him with a hockey stick managed to avoid jail at Lerwick Sheriff Court this week.

Jonathan Wills has accused the five people who referred him to the Standards Commission for an alleged breach of the councillors’ Code of Conduct of spending more than £3,000 of public money on preparing the complaint without the authority of the council.

An elderly woman in Lerwick thought that the stranger who appeared in her house on Monday was her new home help.

A long-time drug user was given the chance to avoid another jail sentence on Wednesday for being involved in supplying heroin.

Pupils at the Anderson High School in Lerwick have really felt the earth move, after joining the UK Schools Seismology Project last September and having a seismometer running in the school.