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FRIDAY’S NorthLink ferry sailings from Aberdeen to Lerwick and from Lerwick to Aberdeen have been cancelled due to strong winds.Tomorrow night’s sailings are also in doubt and the company said they were keeping the situation under review because of a forecast of more bad weather.Further info... Read more...
By NEIL RIDDELLFLYBE and Loganair are coming under growing pressure to reverse the introduction of vastly inflated ancillary charges and fees for flying in and out of Shetland.The budget airline takes over Loganair’s franchise from this Sunday and The Shetland Times is today launching a petit... Read more...
By NEIL RIDDELLMONOPOLY fuel distributor in the isles GB Oils is refusing to talk publicly about why Shetland motorists are continuing to pay among the highest fuel prices in the world, prompting the SIC to pursue talks with the company aimed at ending the inflated costs.GB Oils has come under ... Read more...
By NEIL RIDDELLA FORMER senior official at the City of Edinburgh Council has vowed to be “innovative” in addressing the challenge of continuing to provide services in a climate of spending restraint, after being appointed as the SIC’s new executive director of infrastructure.Gordon Gr... Read more...
By NEIL RIDDELLTHE VALUE of the council workers’ pension fund has taken a hammering as a result of the global financial crisis in recent months, shedding £25m in value over the past six months.At the end of September the fund stood at £183m, down from £208m at the beginning of the current f... Read more...
By RYAN TAYLORTHE SAXA Vord leisure complex which helped bring regeneration to Unst after the RAF pulled out of the island in 2005 has been put on the market.Owner Frank Strang is offering the entire property in Haroldswick, which includes 21 self-catering houses plus a hostel, for £2.75 milli... Read more...
By JOHN ROBERTSONWOMEN in Shetland are producing more babies than any other part of Scotland, giving the islands its highest birth rate for 12 years.The number of babies born in hospital jumped by 40 to a total of 266 in the year ending 31st March 2007, amounting to a birth rate of 65.2 per... Read more...
By ROSALIND GRIFFITHSHOSPITAL cleaning and catering in Shetland are to be taken back within the NHS, Scottish public health minister Shona Robison revealed during a visit this week.Ms Robison, who was in Shetland to conduct the annual review of the health board, said the move would be importa... Read more...
RANDOM drug and alcohol testing is set to be imposed on council employees who work with boats, road vehicles and other potentially dangerous machinery. SIC managers are pushing for the testing regime for jobs where being intoxicated could lead to serious accidents.In the past it was common knowl... Read more...
COUNCIL services could again face serious disruption if union members vote against a revised pay offer in the long-running wages dispute.Union members are to decide whether to accept a three per cent pay offer this year followed by 2.5 per cent in 2009.The revised offer was tabled by employers C... Read more...