FOLLOWING complaints by some councillors that they were being kept in the dark over progress on the Mareel project, a sounding board has been created for the duration of the project’s con­struction. ...

THE UK Cabinet discussed giving assurances to Shetland that devolution would not affect the isles’ oil fund or rate support grant in 1978 after MP Jo Grimond and councillors demanded an opt-out if islanders voted against home rule in the 1979 referendum, it emerged this week. ...

HAPPY New Year! The light is on its way back. ...

LERWICK harbour has been very quiet over the festive period, with a marked decrease in oil-related activity. ...

DECEMBER was a fairly quiet month for wildlife in the North Isles. ...

THE BLACK guillemot, or tystie, one of our most widespread and best known seabirds, appeared for the first time on the Shetland list in 1769. ...

By CHARLIE SIMPSON FOR fully more than half of last century, the name of Christian Salvesen & Co of Leith was known in just about every Shetland household as an employer of seafaring men. ...

IT HAS occurred to me on occasion to do a horticultural review of the year that’s (almost) past, but when­ever I attempt to write such a thing, I find the research too lengthy and exhausting, and the meagre fruits of my efforts soon turn stale, dull and dusty. ...

EACH year, funds raised from the collection at the watch night service in Hillswick Church of Scotland are donated to charity. ...

TO PUT on a gig heralded as the launch of a new compilation CD of alternative Shetland music and have a tribute band headline sounds a tad odd. ...