WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SHETLAND

Thursday, 02 September 2010 at 10:20

HEADLINES

TODAY: DRY AND BRIGHT
TONIGHT: MISTY
TOMORROW: DRY BUT CLOUDY
DAYS 2-5: MOSTLY DRY, FRESHENING SE WIND
DAYS 6-10: SOME RAIN

Children’s author Sharon Tregenza has withdrawn from the Wordplay book festival this weekend due to a family bereavement.

As the local football season draws to a close, Whitedale and Spurs will contest Saturday’s County Shield final at the Gilbertson Park after the West Side team narrowly defeated champions Whalsay in the semi-finals. Otherwise Delting picked up two more wins, including a first league defeat for Whalsay, and are now favourites to finish second in the G&S Flooring Premier League.

Competition for senior hockey’s Grutness Trophy is hotting up, with Spurs leading the way on nine points but Delting and Whalsay, who have both played a game less, are on seven and six points respectively.

A man appeared in private at Lerwick Sheriff Court today charged with carrying out a serious assault.

Life-size bronze puffins made by a sculptor have been installed on the NorthLink ferries Hrossey and Hjaltland as part of a project to highlight the work of the conservation charity Scottish Wildlife Trust.

A burst water main near Shetland College caused chaos this morning with students having to be sent home and staff unable to get a cup of tea.

The Carling Scottish Cup will be in Shetland today and tomorrow as part of an effort by a local firm to raise money for the senior football team’s trip to next year’s island games in the Isle of Wight.

School assistant and mother-of-three Louise Duffy has become student of the year at Shetland College UHI.

An American gospel quartet is to play a show in Shetland early next year as part of their European tour.