New studentship at marine centre
THE NAFC Marine Centre, in partnership with Shetland Amenity Trust, is offering a new three-year research studentship for a project on the history of Shetland’s…
READ FULL STORYTHE NAFC Marine Centre, in partnership with Shetland Amenity Trust, is offering a new three-year research studentship for a project on the history of Shetland’s…
READ FULL STORYTHE FIRST herring of the summer has sparked the Shetland Catch end of Lerwick Harbour into life this week. First to arrive at the Gremista…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON A PROMINENT farmer and livestock dealer says Shetland needs to invest in a future for its agriculture by encouraging the rearing of…
READ FULL STORYYell water meeting SCOTTISH Water has confirmed that it is to hold a public meeting/open day in the Burravoe Hall on Monday, 15th September from…
READ FULL STORYSANDWICK has been named as one of five Scottish communities in the running for a village of the year award. Organised by Calor, the awards…
READ FULL STORYBy RYAN TAYLOR GREY skies and rain showers were forecast from the beginning, but no-one was expecting last Saturday’s Walls Show to become the setting…
READ FULL STORYJULY was a mild, wet month with a few “hot” days. The 1st to the 13th was rather unsettled and cyclonic. A depression moved north…
READ FULL STORYLater start for bannock THE BIG Bannock will not begin until 2pm tomorrow as a mark of respect for a funeral in North Roe in…
READ FULL STORYSociety’s Sunday teas THE SHETLAND Bus Friendship Society is holding teas in the Scalloway Hall on Sunday. On display during the afternoon there will be…
READ FULL STORYOCTOBER’S Shetland Food Festival will feature very special guests including Jean Christophe Novelli, the man who’s been described as Britain’s favourite French chef. M. Novelli…
READ FULL STORYBy ROSALIND GRIFFITHS A PACKED Garrison Theatre reverberated to a spirited session of music and story-telling last Thursday during the fourth night of the Fiddle…
READ FULL STORYBy MIRIAM BRETT AFTER five days of hard work, Saturday saw the last of the evening concerts for Fiddle Frenzy 2008. Headlining at the Garrison…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL “WE ARE who we are because we grew up the Stornoway way. We do not live in the back of beyond, we…
READ FULL STORYONE of the most famous pieces of Elizabethan drama takes to the stage at the Garrison Theatre next week when Shetland Youth Theatre performs Christopher…
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