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.

New mothers in Shetland will soon be able to benefit from breastfeeding support thanks to a new initiative from the Breastfeeding Network (BfN) in conjunction with NHS Shetland.

A business deal has been reached between Brae-based seafood company Blueshell Mussels and fellow operators Demlane and Si Seafarms Ltd. The move is being seen as a major step in protecting and developing Shetland’s mussel farming industry.

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.

A Scalloway woman who was seriously injured in a bad road accident near Lerwick is suing Northern Constabulary for £200,000 for injury and damage.

Shetland Arts is looking to spend over £1 million on an ambitious plan to expand its Bonhoga gallery and café in the Weisdale valley if funding from UK and European sources can be found.

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

The owners of a Lerwick food shop fear they will be the first local business forced out by Tesco’s supermarket expansion. Najma and Asghar Ali have seen trade at their World Tastes specialist grocery shop plummet since last week when the retail giant began selling a range of exactly the same Asian products at a fraction of the price.

Tesco’s extensive stocking of non-food items in the new part of its Lerwick shop appears to have been the result of an oversight by Shetland Islands Council, it has emerged.

The late Shetland musician Peerie Willie Johnson has been entered into the Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies (ODNB).

WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SHETLAND

Thursday, 29 July 2010 at 11:25

HEADLINES

TODAY: PATCHY DRIZZLE, BRIGHTER SPELLS
TONIGHT: CLOUDY, SOME DRIZZLE
TOMORROW: SOME BRIGHTNESS, RAIN LATER
DAYS 2-5: RAIN THEN SCATTERED SHOWERS
DAYS 6-10: CHANGEABLE

What’s on in Shetland in July 2010

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