The leaders of Scotland’s three island councils today agreed that in the run-up to next year’s independence referendum they must ask for greater powers in local decision-making.
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Gary Robinson
Shetland Islands Council is urging the UK and Scottish Governments to recognise the “critical” urgency of arranging talks to resolve its outstanding £40 million housing debt.
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Cinema and music venue Mareel.
Mareel’s future as a cinema and music venue is safe after the SIC agreed to purchase a 99-year “long lease” on the building for £1.1 million.
Click here for full story...Councillors have today thrown out a recommendation to form a shadow health and social care partnership board, together with NHS Shetland.
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The path has been cleared for Leog House to find a new lease of life as a hotel, hostel or bed and breakfast.
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Ryder Architects' outline of where the new AHS and hostel will go.
The SIC has kicked off a three-month consultation on plans for the new Anderson High School.
Click here for full story...Council house tenants have reacted angrily to the prospect of a 10 per cent rent rise if the government does not write off the SIC’s £40 million housing debt.
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Ryan Arthur outlines why islanders want the SIC to leave their school alone.
“In no circumstances is this Skerries community giving up the fight”. The defiant words of Ann Anderson summed up the mood music among the 25 residents who attended the latest in a seemingly never-ending series of consultations on whether to close Skerries’ small secondary school.
Click here for full story...New government figures show the SIC’s spending per head on secondary pupils was more than double the Scottish average a year ago.…
Click here for full story...Calls for Shetland Islands Council to stop investing in tobacco shares were renewed this week.…
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