Shetland Women’s FC took advantage of the break in the weather to travel south for two friendlies in Glasgow on 13th-14th February as previous arrangements for games against Kemnay and Inverness had fallen foul of the weather.

A Shetland-born footballer has been given the opportunity of a lifetime with the offer of a football scholarship in the United States.

Actor Simon Weir, well known for his roles in Scottish soaps High Road and River City, is looking for information on his grandfather’s wartime career in Shetland.

A number of items were on the agenda when Shetland Football Association held its annual general meeting last Thursday in Islesburgh Community Centre.

Shetland Women’s Football Club has come on leaps and bounds since being formed five years ago, but those who take part are looking for a new injection of interest in order to take the sport forward still more.

The Shetland Works League Foot­ball Association held the Hanson Aggregate indoor tourna­ment at the weekend.

The Shetland Football Association held their annual awards night at the Shetland Hotel on 19th of September.

Whalsay were the winners of this year’s G&S Flooring Premier League after a resounding 11-0 victory over Unst at Harbison Park on Saturday.

Whalsay will take to the field at Harbison Park tomorrow lunchtime knowing that a victory over fellow island side Unst will be enough for them to end Delting’s seven-year stranglehold on senior football’s top prize.

Whitedale claimed their second piece of silverware of the season with a narrow win against Whalsay in the County Shield on Friday. The success marks a big turnaround in fortunes for the side which, until their Manson Cup victory earlier in the season, had been without a trophy for 14 years.

A fish farm worker who assaulted his daughter and threatened to kill a man as he battered him with a hockey stick managed to avoid jail at Lerwick Sheriff Court this week.

Jonathan Wills has accused the five people who referred him to the Standards Commission for an alleged breach of the councillors’ Code of Conduct of spending more than £3,000 of public money on preparing the complaint without the authority of the council.

An elderly woman in Lerwick thought that the stranger who appeared in her house on Monday was her new home help.