The Old Rock editorial – 26.04.13: “Censorship by the back door amounts to an attack on free speech”.

SIC officials have embarked on the task of trying to establish what went wrong during the construction of cinema and music venue Mareel.

It is notable – but hardly surprising – that Tavish Scott and his Orkney counterpart Liam McArthur have chosen to respond with their seven-and-a-bit page document to the UK government’s consultation on the referendum on Scotland’s constitutional future, but not the Scottish government’s own Your Scotland Your Referendum exercise.…

The most severe global financial crisis since the Great Depression is getting worse.

Last year while he was on a visit to China, Prime Minister David Cameron was involved in a diplomatic incident that had more than a casual connection with Scotland’s past.

The chief executive of the national sports body sportscotland, Stewart Harris, was in Shetland on Friday to present swimmer Andrea Strachan, who won four gold medals at the Island Games in the Isle of Wight in the summer, with her richly-deserved accolade of Sportsperson of the Year 2011.

October 1st 2011 was a dark day indeed. In Scotland new legislation came into force, banning shops and supermarkets from offering special deals on alcohol purchases, while in Demark the world’s first ever fat tax was introduced. The Danish tax targets specifically saturated fat, and affects such items as butter, milk, cheese, meat and processed foods.

The Air Discount Scheme (ADS), introduced in 2006, was operating very nicely thank you until April this year when the Scottish government decided to exclude business travellers and those from public sector bodies and charities.

Over the past few weeks, people in Europe have been asked to believe something that would, not so long ago, have been absurd; we have been asked to believe that economics is a question with only one possible answer, and the pursuit of that answer is sometimes more important than the pursuit of democracy.

Why the sudden urgency among some trustees to rush into the referendum on the future of Shetland Charitable Trust? Surely it would be prudent first to establish whether it would be legal to ask people if they support the current system, whereby all but two trustees are members of Shetland Islands Council.