Shetland Museum and Archives has welcomed record numbers of visitors through the doors during the past two months. The exhibitions and events run as part of the Hamefarin celebrations attracted almost 11,000 people from the far corners of the world in June and visitor numbers have continued to rise in July with figures expected to be as high as 12,000.

Shetland should be chosen as one of the three areas in Britain to be covered by the high speed broadband testing project which will be pioneered by the UK government, according to isles MSP Tavish Scott.

Police seized a replica handgun from an 18-year-old man in Lerwick town centre yesterday afternoon.

The decision by the House of Commons energy committee to examine the question of a ban on drilling west of Shetland in light of the Gulf of Mexico disaster is welcome. The beefing up of the number of civil servants in the energy department’s Aberdeen-based safety division, announced recently by the minister, Chris Huhne, appeared a little cosmetic.

Sullom Quarries are helping to lay a new pipeline in the North Sea which will eventually pump an extra 80,000 barrels of oil per day to the Sullom Voe Terminal.

Bell’s Brae Primary occasionally has a lot to answer for! Cameron came home from school one Friday late last year and decreed that he wanted to see the D-Day landing beaches in Normandy.

Douglas Fordyce has turned up trumps again in acrobatic gymnastics – with a performance to remember for the rest of his life.

Three weeks after her family hosted one of the crews in the Shetland Round Britain and Ireland Yacht race, young Lerwick Boating Club sailor Kirsten Napier found herself following their route south to the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, venue for the sailing events in the London 2012 Olympics.

Shetland’s seafood suppliers have received a glowing review this week from two top members of staff at Jamie Oliver’s Restaurant Fifteen in London.

A teenager accused of breaking into a house was locked up today after making his second court appearance in two days.