‘Interest’ in resort
THE businessman trying to sell parts of the Saxa Vord leisure complex on the site of the old RAF base in Unst said this week…
READ FULL STORYTHE businessman trying to sell parts of the Saxa Vord leisure complex on the site of the old RAF base in Unst said this week…
READ FULL STORYTHE MERCHANT navy gained six new officers when all six cadets at the Shetland School of Nautical Studies (SSNS) passed oral examinations at the NAFC…
READ FULL STORYAGED 19, fisherman Steven Mair has become the youngest in Shetland to achieve the Gold Standard under-16m skipper’s ticket, which allows him to fish beyond…
READ FULL STORYAN INCREASE in fishing vessels using Lerwick Harbour was the largest single factor behind an 11.4 per cent rise to 4,256 in arrivals at the…
READ FULL STORYTHIS week’s bad weather meant a busy spell at Lerwick Harbour with boats of all types seeking shelter and not many spare berths. Oil supply…
READ FULL STORYIT IS said that Nova Scotia is, in many ways, even more Scottish than Scotland. The wave of Scottish blood that first migrated (largely unwillingly)…
READ FULL STORYA NEW exhibition of paintings opens this weekend at Vaila Fine Art in Lerwick. The Crossing of Paths features recent watercolours from West Africa by…
READ FULL STORYSHETLAND fiddle star Catriona Macdonald is to make a trip home to play two concerts next week as part of her “Over the Moon” Scottish…
READ FULL STORYThe Guga Hunters by Donald S. Murray, Birlinn, £9.99. THE little-known practice of catching and eating seabirds is elevated and venerated in this book by…
READ FULL STORYAFTER bouncing over the plywood covers that lie over Lerwick’s own Forth Road Bridge project (the painting of) – the reflagging of Commercial Street –…
READ FULL STORYTHROUGHOUT history the art of the portrait has represented the good, the great and the worthy members of society, notably in the area of commissioned…
READ FULL STORYFIDDLERS’ Bid are to head out to Japan early next month for their second tour of the country. The band is due to play three…
READ FULL STORY25 YEARS AGO British Airways Helicopters have lost the search and rescue contract run from Sumburgh since 1980. The new contract has been awarded to…
READ FULL STORYONE of the things that frequently leaves me speechless is the people that I meet in the course of my work as an MP who…
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