January 29th, 2010 by
Shetland Times
Over the six years that the Second World War lasted my father used to say there was never such a thing as a good day, only days that were less bad than others. Victory over the Axis powers and Japan eventually came to bring days of rejoicing, although it did not take long before there dawned the recognition of victory’s awful cost in human suffering and lost lives.
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January 8th, 2010 by
Shetland Times
Last week CHARLIE SIMPSON began recalling the history of the family business J & M Shearer, which at one time employed many people in the herring curing industry. Here, he concludes his story with details of what went on after the Second World War.
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January 6th, 2010 by
Jim Tait
The final year of the decade began with much opposition to plans to turn a former fish factory at Blydoit near Scalloway into a slaughterhouse.
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January 5th, 2010 by
Jim Tait
2008 There was good news at the beginning of the year when a Burmese family were finally granted leave to stay in Shetland after a five-year battle against deportation.
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January 4th, 2010 by
Jim Tait
The year got off to a tragic start when the bodies of a couple from Burra were discovered at their home.
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January 3rd, 2010 by
Jim Tait
If a decade of reviewing can allow one puff of our own trumpet, we will begin with the news in January that The Shetland Times had been named Newspaper of the Year for 2005 in the Highlands and Islands Media Awards.
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January 2nd, 2010 by
Jim Tait
Last week Jim Tait delved into The Shetland Times archives to look at the first five years of the noughties. Here, he brings things right up to date with a backward glance at events in Shetland since 2005.
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December 31st, 2009 by
Shetland Times
It is more than 30 years since the family business J & M Shearer cured herring. But once upon a time it was at the centre of a colossal Shetland enterprise that employed thousands, as CHARLIE SIMPSON narrates in the first of a two-part series.
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December 30th, 2009 by
Jim Tait
Loggerheads between SIC and LPA over Bressay brig
2004
There was little surprise at the first big talking point of 2004 – Lerwick Port Authority’s decision to object to the council’s planning application for the Bressay bridge. The authority felt the bridge would have an impact on businesses in the area, would cause navigational difficulties and possibly restrict future dredging in the harbour.
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December 29th, 2009 by
Jim Tait
Landslides rip apart South Mainland hills
2003
A fairly high-profile figure made a pretty low-key visit to the isles at the beginning of the year. When Scalloway Museum curator Robert Johnson was asked if he could open the building specially for visitors he had no idea that one of them was going to be Helen Clark, the Prime Minister of New Zealand!
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