NAFC Marine Centre director David Gray has announced he is resigning after more than four years in the post to take up a new job in Nova Scotia.

As we all know Shetland Charitable Trust deals with a high percentage of Shetlanders’ oil money, which in turn gives financial backing to Viking Energy.

A computer hacker who took part in high-tech cyber attacks on the CIA and a British police force from his bedroom in Shetland has been bailed ahead of sentencing.

Police will be at Lerwick’s Market Cross every day this week to meet motorists who attempt to drive along Commercial Street between the forbidden hours of 11.30am to 5.30pm.

Shetland coastguard carried out a medivac from the Brent Bravo platform 100 miles east north-east of Shetland on Saturday afternoon.

The SIC has withdrawn the community skips service where rural dwellers could dispose of bulky items in an effort to save money and replaced it with their own uplift scheme.

As tidal, wave and offshore wind power generation become ever more serious options for Shetland’s seas, we could lose control over their development. But, says Kate Johnson, of Heriot Watt University’s International Centre for Island Technology, Shetland already offers a model of how local control could benefit communities throughout the UK.

Following a meeting last Tuesday with councillor Allison Duncan and the people who regularly attend the Freefield Centre for lunch it has been reported that they unanimously agreed to move out and look for other premises. I would like to inform you of how this decision came about.