A SALMON farm company was fined £14,700 this week for a series of health and safety failings uncovered following the death of one of its employees who fell overboard from the vessel Conquest.

Mainstream Scotland Ltd was not charged in connection with the death of employee Martin Ramsay, 44, who was not wearing a lifejacket…

By RYAN TAYLOR

AN AGREEMENT has been reached over livestock movements which should prevent the repeat of a fall out between NorthLink and the marts.

Farmers and crofters from the North Isles trying to ship animals south after recent farm to farm sales feared the beasts could be turned away at the pier because…

TWO heroin suppliers were jailed for almost five years and just over three years respectively when they appeared at courts in Lerwick and Edinburgh this week.

The 57-month sentence imposed on William Fitzgibbon, from Liver­pool, is believed to be one of the highest handed down locally by Sheriff Graeme Napier, and follows the tougher action…

HIGH prices and the global economic downturn were mainly why Faroese airline Atlantic Airways decided to pull the plug on its service to Shetland.

The company had provided a link between Sumburgh Airport and London Stansted, but was forced to change its plans last week.

Members of the transport partnership ZetTrans expressed their disappointment at…

MAJOR refurbishment work needs to be carried out on the Walls pier for it to continue acting as a major hub for the aquaculture industry.

Members of the SIC’s harbour board heard the ageing structure, which dates back almost 100 years, was in dire need of work costing almost a quarter of a million pounds…

PLANS to move 20 patients from Montfield to the Gilbert Bain Hospital have been amended to take account of new infection control guidelines.

The guidelines say that space between beds has to be increased in order to minimise hospital acquired infections.

This means that fewer beds can now be accommodated in the refurbished Ward 2…

HAY’S Dock Café Restaurant, located in the Shetland Museum and Archives, is playing an active part in the first Shetland Food Festival, showcasing dishes inspired by a Shetland cookery book held in the archives. The Shetland Cookery Book, by Margaret B Stout, is an abridged copy of Cookery for Northern Wives which she published in…

A HARBOUR providing Fair Isle’s main link with mainland Shetland is under threat because sea defences around its approach road are facing coastal erosion.

Shetland South councillor Rick Nickerson says the SIC’s harbour board needs to be aware of the problems facing the island’s North Haven harbour so something can be done to combat the…

By RYAN TAYLOR

A DISPUTE over the former Tod’s warehouse in Lerwick is threatening the future of Shetland’s classic car collection.

The large shed in the town’s Gremista Industrial Estate has pro­vided storage for over 50 vehicles belonging to members of the Shet­land Classic Car Club for 12 years.

But the cars’ owners are…

By ROSALIND GRIFFITHS

THE TRANSPORT partnership ZetTrans is to explore the possibility of a single-lane tunnel controlled by traffic lights between Yell and Unst, it emerged at a meeting of the body on Monday.

Members heard that a STAG (Scottish Transport Appraisal Guid­ance) report on Bluemull Sound recently commissioned by ZetTrans found that a…

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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