Dive vessel escorted to harbour
A DIVE vessel with 14 women on board was escorted into port after she began taking in water off Shetland on Sunday. The 22-metre Valkyrie…
READ FULL STORYA DIVE vessel with 14 women on board was escorted into port after she began taking in water off Shetland on Sunday. The 22-metre Valkyrie…
READ FULL STORYMORE than 30 visiting yachts arrived at Lerwick Harbour this week, making it one of the busiest times of the summer so far. The yachts…
READ FULL STORYBy PAUL RIDDELL WHEN Donald Walker discovered that the Fifie Pilot Us had been acquired and restored for exhibit by Shetland Museum, he longed to…
READ FULL STORYARTIST Maxie Bain is back at the Bonhoga Gallery, no doubt repeating the success of his last show in the venue. Again the paintings are…
READ FULL STORYONE of the UK’s most influential and pioneering techno house DJs is to play his first show in Shetland next weekend. Justin Robertson will be…
READ FULL STORYTHE WORKS of eight poets from Shetland and Orkney will be read to the public at Shetland Museum on Friday 25th July before being abandoned…
READ FULL STORYBY John Haswell THERE is something wonderful about the spectacle that can be achieved with a large number of enthusiastic young performers on stage. Given…
READ FULL STORY25 YEARS AGO THE EEC discussions about herring fishing broke down completely in Brussels this week, leaving the situation in a state of chaos and…
READ FULL STORYI USUALLY touch on politics in this column but don’t major on subjects that are beloved of politicians but not of enormous interest to real…
READ FULL STORYFlugga Boats’ success Father and son Jack and Brydon Barclay, who own the Unst firm Flugga Boats, are back home after a highly successful trip…
READ FULL STORYHarbour activity A BUSY start to the week saw another trio of leviathans coming into Scalloway in quick succession. The anchor handling tug Ursus returned…
READ FULL STORYA fayre success BRAE High school held a very successful summer fayre last Thursday which was officially opened by head teacher Robert Grant. Despite the…
READ FULL STORYBY Val Turner Busy at Unst WORK is now proceeding apace with the excavation of the three Viking longhouses currently being excavated in Unst. At…
READ FULL STORYWHEN it comes to waterside planting and bog gardens, damp borders even, there is usually a large gap from the moment the last spring flowers…
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