As the local football season draws to a close, Whitedale and Spurs will contest Saturday’s County Shield final at the Gilbertson Park after the West Side team narrowly defeated champions Whalsay in the semi-finals. Otherwise Delting picked up two more wins, including a first league defeat for Whalsay, and are now favourites to finish second in the G&S Flooring Premier League.

The Carling Scottish Cup will be in Shetland today and tomorrow as part of an effort by a local firm to raise money for the senior football team’s trip to next year’s island games in the Isle of Wight.

Celtic took the honours in this year’s Bloomfield Cup Final, overcoming Delting in an entertaining match at the Gilbertson Park on Saturday.

Spurs made it through to the final of senior football’s final knockout competition of the season, the County Shield, after defeating Thistle in the quarter-final on Friday and following it up with a win over Delting in the semi-final on Monday.

Newly crowned senior football champions Whalsay, who added the Parish Cup for good measure at the weekend, maintained their league form by defeating Spurs on Monday.

Whalsay won the Parish Cup football trophy by defeating Southend 1-0 in the final at Gilbertson Park on Saturday.

Southend face the daunting pros­pect of going head to head with Whalsay in Saturday’s Parish Cup final, after the Bonnie Isle clinched the Shetland senior foot­ball championship on Mon­day with three matches still to be played.

Whalsay’s footballers retained the G&S Flooring Premier League with a 2-1 victory over Scalloway on Monday evening.

Two second-half goals from striker Ross McDougal saw Shetland retain the Milne Cup in the senior football inter-county at a wet Pickaquoy on Saturday afternoon.

A youthful 16-man pool of Shetland’s footballers, containing 10 players aged 24 or under, will be in Kirkwall for the annual inter-county match against Orkney on Saturday.

A former Lerwick optician is suing his estranged wife and erstwhile business partner for more than £800,000, claiming that her actions after they went their separate ways six years ago effectively left him out of work.

New SIC chief executive Alistair Buchan came face to face with all councillors this week for the first time since taking up the post for what he described as “very positive” initial discussions about how to react to major criticisms in the Accounts Commission’s recent report on the local authority.

Multiple Grammy winner Steve Earle, the outspoken singer-song­writer responsible for a host of classic Americana songs including Copperhead Road, Guitar Town and Galway Girl, will be stopping off in Lerwick next Thursday for a re-arranged show at Clickimin.